OESTRELATA GULARIS. 



be CE. gularis of Peale, sent a specimen of CE. affinis to Mr. Ridgway, who 

 compared it with Peale's type and found it identical. 



Peale, in his original description, gives the breast as " plumbeous." He also says 

 that the " primaries and spurious wings are nearly black, with brown shafts," no 

 mention being made of the white on the inner webs of the quills, which is such a 

 conspicuous feature. 



In the " Catalogue of Birds " Salvin quoted the description (presumably taken 

 from Peale's type) given by Mr. Ridgway in his " Manual." Here we find that the 

 inner webs of the primaries are " abruptly white for at least the inner half, with the 

 shafts of the quills dark brown." 



CE. gularis is a very appropriate name, for the white throat is a conspicuous feature, 

 standing out in strong relief from the grey under-surface of the bird. In many respects 

 it is allied to (E. heraldica, but has more white on the inner webs of the primaries. 

 This character also separates (E. gularis from (E. mollis, to which it otherwise bears 

 a certain resemblance, particularly in the black in front of, and below, the eye ; but it 

 is distinguished from both CE. mollis and CE. heraldica by its grey breast and abdomen. 



Peale says this Fulmar was found among icebergs, buffeting the storms and fogs 

 of the Antarctic regions. He saw but few examples, and only obtained a single 

 specimen, on March 21st, while the ship " Peacock " was enveloped in a fog, in Lat. 68° 

 S., Long. 95° W. It occurs in the New Zealand seas, and Buller mentions many places 

 whence he had received specimens ; among these are the Spencer Mountains in the 

 Province of Canterbury. Mr. Percy Seymour discovered a nesting colony at 

 Preservation Inlet, and, according to Buller, the species has also been found on the 

 Auckland Islands. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slate-colour, mottled on the back of the 

 head, neck, and mantle with white bases to the feathers ; back and scapulars somewhat 

 lighter slaty-grey, with hoary-white fringes to the feathers, the longer scapulars darker ; 

 centre of the rump and central short upper tail-coverts dark slaty-grey, with blackish 

 margins and shafts ; lateral upper tail-coverts light ashy-grey, with white bases ; 

 tail-feathers also ashy-grey, white at the extreme base, the two outer ones grey on the 

 outer webs, the inner webs white, more or less freckled with grey ; wing-coverts slaty- 

 black, including the marginal-coverts, bastard-wing and primary-coverts, the latter 

 slaty-grey on the inner web, and fringed with white, the median-coverts and the greater 

 series lighter and more ashy-grey, with white edges ; the greater coverts with concealed 

 white bases ; quills slaty-black, the inner primaries rather more ashy, the secondaries 

 light ashy-grey like the greater-coverts, with the base white, extending for a 

 considerable part of the inner web ; the secondaries fringed with white, like 

 the greater-coverts ; all the primaries white for the greater part of the inner 

 web ; head slightly browner than the back ; the forehead mottled with black 

 feathers edged with white ; lores white, as also a small streak below the eye ; 



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