79. (ESTRELATA HERALDICA, Sahin. 



(CHESTERFIELD ISLANDS FULMAR.) 



(Plate 67.) 



Procdlaria leucoptera (nee Gould) Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, VL, Procell., p. 12 (1863). 

 Fulmarus philippii (nee Gray, 1862) Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 106 (1871). 

 CEstrelata heraldica, Salvin, Ibis, 1888, p. 357 ; id., Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., 

 p. 414 (1896). 



Media: ala 11.1: subtus alba, gutture imo, praepectore et hypochondriis fusco- 

 cineraceo fimbriatis : subalaribus nigricanti-brunneis, raajoribus albis apicem versus 

 nigricantibus : primariis nigricantibus, intus conspicue albis : fronte nigro maculate 



This species was described by Salvin from Chesterfield Islands, in the South-western 

 Pacific, to the west of New Caledonia. Besides the type in our collection, which was 

 obtained by Macgillivray, there is another in the British Museum from the same 

 source. 



CE. heraldica is distinguished by the very conspicuous white quill-linings, and 

 the blackish under wing-coverts, the greater series of which are white with ashy-black 

 ends. The lores, cheeks, and under-surface are white, with numerous cross vermicula- 

 tions of a dull ashy colour which are continued on the sides of the body. 



I have found no other locality for the species beyond Chesterfield Islands, for 

 though Salvin quotes Schlegel's Procdlaria leucoptera from Ternate (Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 VI. , Procdl., p. 12) as this bird, the description does not agree with CE. heraldica, and 

 the locality, " Ternate," seems improbable. 



Adult (type). General colour above dark brown, washed with slaty-grey, the 

 feathers having obsolete margins of the same colour ; longer scapulars blacker, like the 

 inner secondaries ; wing-coverts black, with a shade of slaty-grey on the greater 

 series ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, the primaries white internally, the 

 secondaries whitish towards the base ; upper tail-coverts black, white for more than 

 the basal half ; tail-feathers black, white at the base, and for a little distance up the 

 inner web ; crown of head like the back, slightly mottled with white where the bases 



234 



