85. GESTRELATA COOKI (Gray). 



(COOK'S FULMAR.) 

 (Plate 71.) 



Procellaria cookii, Gray, in Dieffenbach's New Zeal., II., p. 99 (1843) ; id., Voy. 



" Erebus and Terror," I., Birds, p. 17, PL 35 (1846) ; Buller, Birds New 



Zeal., p. 307 (1873). 

 Cookilaria velox, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 190 (1855). 

 Bhaniistes cooki, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 768 (1856). 

 Mstrelata cooki, Gould, Handb. Birds Austral., II., p. 456 (1865). 

 Procellaria velox, Pelz., Reis. Novara, Zool., I., Vog., p. 146 (1869). 

 Fulmarus cooki, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 106 (1871). 

 (Estrelata cooki, Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., II., p. 217 (1888) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 417 (1896) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., #. 17 (1907). 



Minor: ala 8.75-9.1: rostro tenuiore, culmine 1.0-1.15: pileo cinereo, dorso 

 concolori. 



Cook's Fulmar belongs to the group of small species comprising CE. leucoptera, CE. 

 longirostris, and CE. defilippiana. The blue-grey head, uniform with the back, proclaims 

 its affinity to the last named species, the other two having black heads. 



The range of CE. cooki is apparently not very extensive, as it is, at present, only 

 known from the New Zealand and Australian Seas. It was described by the late 

 George Robert Gray from New Zealand, and the type specimen is in the British 

 Museum. Sir Walter Buller states that this Fulmar is mainly found in the North 

 Island, at the northern extremity of which it was met with by Mr. Reischek, 

 who likewise records it from the Little Barrier and Larger Chicken Islands, though 

 it was rare in both places. According to Mr. A. J. Campbell (Nests and Eggs 

 Aust. Birds, II., p. 908), the species is also found in the seas of Queensland and 

 New South Wales. 



The difference between CE. defilippiana and CE. cooki has been pointed out under 

 the former species. 



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