101. PELECANOIDES UBINATBIX (Gm.). 



(DIVING PETREL.) 



(Plate 86.) 



Diving Petrel, Forster, Voy. I., p. 189 ; Lath., Gen. Syn., III., pt. 2, p. 413 (1785). 

 Procellaria urinatrix, Gm., Syst. Nat., I., p. 560 (1788) ; Kuhl, Beitr., p. 145 (1820). 

 Pelecanoides urinatrix, Lacep., Mem. de l'lnst., III., p. 517 (1801) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. 



Philad., 1866, p. 190 ; Buller, Birds N. Zeal., p. 313 (1873) ; id., op. cit., 



2nd ed., II., p. 207 (1888) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 437 (1896). 

 Haladroma urinatrix, Illiger, Prodr., p. 274 (1811) ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., II., 



p. 483 (1865). 

 Procellaria berard, Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. " Uranie," Zool., p. 135, PI. 37 (1824). 

 Haladroma berardi, Temm., PI. Col., PI. 517 (1831). 

 Pelecanoides berardi, Gould, Voy. " Beagle," II., Birds, p. 138 (1841) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. 



Philad., 1866, p. 190 ; Buller, Birds N. Zeal.,- p. 314 (1873) ; id., op. cit., ed. 2, 



IL, p. 208 (1888). 

 Procellaria tridactyla, Forster, Descr. Anim., p. 149 (1844). 

 Puffinuria urinatrix, Gould, Birds Australia, VII., PI. 60 (1844). 



Niger : subtus pure albus, hypochondriis tantum cineraceis vel cineraceo lineatis. 



The Diving Petrel was first discovered in Queen Charlotte's Sound, New Zealand, 

 during Captain Cook's second circumnavigating voyage, and the original specimen was 

 figured by George Forster in the series of drawings which he executed for Sir Joseph 

 Banks. There are several examples in the British Museum from New Zealand, and 

 Buller states that he found the species in large flocks and extraordinarily plentiful,, 

 especially in the Hauraki Gulf, where it occurs at all seasons of the year (Birds New 

 Zeal., p. 314). Other breeding places recorded by Buller are, Stephen's Island in 

 Cook's Straits, Karewa Island off Tauranga, the small islets off the Great Barrier Island, 

 and also on the Hen and Chickens. 



Captain Hutton states that P. urinatrix occurs on the Auckland Islands (Ibis, 

 1869, p. 352), and young birds in down were procured there during the voyage of 

 the "Erebus" and "Terror." The Rothschild Collection contains an example 



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