103. PELECANOLDES GARNOTI (Lesson). 



(GABNOT'S DIVING PETREL.) 



(Plate 88.) 



Puffinuria garnoti, Lesson, Voy. " Coquffle," L, pt. 2, p. 730, PI. 46 (1826). 

 Pelecanoides garnoti, Gould, Voy. " Beagle," II., Birds, p. 139 (1841) ; Coues, Pr. 



Acad. Philad., 1866, p. 190 ; Sharpe, Phil. Trans., Vol. 168, p. 115 (1879) ; 



Salvin, Voy. " Challenger," II., pt. VEIL, p. 146 (1880) ; id., Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., XXV., p. 439 (1896). 

 Halodroma garnoti, Tschudi, Faun. Peruan. Orn., p. 54 (1845) ; Tacz., Orn. Perou, 



ILL, p. 465 (1886). 



P. urinatrici similis, sed valde major, rostro et pedibus robustioribus nigris dis- 

 tinguendus. 



This species of Diving Petrel is decidedly larger than P. urinatrix and P. exsul, and 

 was considered by Dr. Elliott Coues (Bull. U. S. Nat Mus., No. I., p. 37) to be iden- 

 tical with the former, but the series examined by me is sufficient to show that the 

 large size, and especially the massive bill and foot of P. garnoti, point to its being 

 a distinct form, and I have no hesitation in separating it specifically from P. urinatrix. 



The habitat of P. garnoti is also somewhat restricted, as it is only found off the 

 west coast of South America, and does not extend to the Straits of Magellan, 

 where P. urinatrix is abundant. 



Lesson, in the account of the voyage of the " Coquille," says that the species was 

 found in large companies along the coast of Peru, and we have two specimens in our 

 collection from Callao. Darwin records it from Iquique (Lat. 20° 12'), and examples 

 were obtained by Bridges off the coast of Chile, while others were observed by 

 Admiral Markham in Coquimbo Bay in November, 1881 (Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XXV., p. 439). A specimen obtained by Captain Brett near Valparaiso is also 

 recorded by Salvin (I.e.), and during the voyage of the " Valhalla " Mr. M. J. Nicoll 

 procured other examples in the same locality, and relates that the bird was common 

 and more easily obtained than P. urinatrix, which he had met with in the Straits of 

 Magellan (Ibis, 1904, p. 52). 



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