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(E. hwsitata, and also with the type of Lawrence's (E. meridionalis, the same author 

 afterwards (Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. 1886, p. 96) pronounces the opinion that they are 

 entirely distinct from CE. sandwichensis, but has ' a suspicion that the latter is the same 

 as (E. phceopygia, Salv. (Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol. ix. pt. ix. May 1876, p. 507, pi. 88. 

 fig. 1), from the Galapagos.' 



" This point, however, can only be determined by direct comparison of the types, and 

 until then we prefer to retain the name which belongs strictly to the Hawaiian speci- 

 mens. Latham's ' White-breasted Petrel ' (Gen. Syn. iii. 2, p. 400), ' from Turtle and 

 Christmas Islands,' upon which Gmelin based his Procellaria alba, scarcely belongs 

 here, as from the description of the former it seems to have the whole head and neck 

 blackish with a white patch on the throat (' the head, neck, and upper parts of the 

 body dusky brown, nearly black ; on the throat a whitish patch ; breast, belly, and vent 

 white'). I do not know Mr. Dole's reasons for including P. alba in the list, unless it 

 be Bloxham's very uncertain statement (Voy. 'Blonde,' p. 252), and I think it most 

 probable that (E. sandwichensis is the bird he intended by that name." 



Mr. Bidgway afterwards wrote (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. p. 104): — "In volume ix. 

 of these 'Proceedings' [1888], p. 96, in an additional note to an article on this bird, 

 I expressed a suspicion that it might be the same as (E. phwopygia, Salv. (Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond. vol. ix. pt. ix. May 1876, p. 507, pi. 88. fig. 1), and in my more recently 

 published ' Manual of North- American Birds ' (p. 65) relinquished any doubt to the 

 question by giving the Sandwich Island bird as (E. phceopygia. In the meantime the 

 type had been sent to Mr. Salvin for comparison with the types of his species, and his 

 letter, dated December 11, 1887, confirms the views which I had adopted, as the 

 following quotation from his letter will show : — ' I have compared it [i. e. the type of 

 (E. sandwichensis] with the two types in the British Museum of (E. phceopygia, and 

 done my best to make them different, but they are as like as any three specimens of 

 the same species of Petrel that I ever examined. The bill is a trifle small in all its 

 dimensions, and outer rectrices a little more freely mottled with white, but the 

 Galapagos birds vary just as much inter se.' " 



I obtained a young bird — said to be of this species — in the down from a native, 

 whilst staying at Kilauea in the month of September 1887, and was told that a 

 considerable number had their nests in holes in the ground in the vicinity, more 

 particularly on the slopes of Mauna Loa. At Kilauea we used to hear at evening-time 

 the peculiarly harsh cry of a bird flying over our heads, and the natives told me it was 

 the Uuau. The flesh is esteemed a great delicacy by the Hawaiians. 



