80. (ESTRELATA GULARIS (Peak). 



(MOTTLED FULMAR.) 

 (Plate 68.) 



Procellaria inexpectata, Forster, Descr. Anim., p. 204 (1844) ; Hutton, P. Z. S., 1893, 



p. 753. 

 Procellaria gularis, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp., p. 299 (1848). 

 Mstrelata gularis, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 768 (1856) ; Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. 



Oceano, p. 44 (1870) ; Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 67 (1887). 

 Procellaria mollis (nee Gould) Cass., U. S. Expl. Exped., p. 410 (1858). 

 Procellaria affinis, Buller, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst., VII., p. 215 (1875). 

 (Estrelata affinis, Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., II., p. 223, PL 41, fig. 1 (1888). 

 (Estrelata gularis, Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed., p. 780 (1884) ; Baird, Brewer 



and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer., II., p. 397 (1884) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1888, 



p. 358 ; id., Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 414 (1896) ; Buller, Suppl. Birds 



New Zeal., I., p. 117 (1905). 

 (Estrelata inexpectata (Forster) ; Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., II., p. 187 (1906). 



Media : ala 9.9-10.0 : primariis intus fere omnino albis : subalaribus et tectricibus 

 primariorum inferioribus pure albis, marginalibus nigricantibus fasciam latam 

 formantibus : axillaribus cineraceis, basin versus albis : gutture albo : gastrseo reliquo 

 cinerascente : subalaribus albis. 



There is in the Banksian Collection of Drawings a coloured figure (PI. 97), by George 

 Forster, of a Fulmar, with the name of Procellaria hwsitata affixed to it, apparently in 

 Solander's handwriting. This drawing has since been identified by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe 

 (I.e.) as Procellaria inexpectata of Forster, who gives a very fair description of the 

 species, and adds " Fig. pict. G.," indicating that his son George had drawn the figure. 

 Although this identification had already been hinted at by Captain Hutton (P. Z. S., 

 1893, p. 753), Salvin did not follow his suggestion, and preferred Peale's name of 

 gularis, which he considered more certain, and in this I agree. 



This species was also called (E. affinis by Buller, but Salvin, suspecting that it might 



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