EIDGWAY'S PETEEL. 



PR CELL ARIA CRYPTOLEUCURA (Ridgway). 



Cymochorea cryptoleucura, Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. 

 p. 337. 



Oceanodrouia cryptoleucura, Wilson, Aves Hawaiienses, 

 part iv. ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 350; 

 Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 53 ; Saunders, Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 401. 



Under this name Mr. Ridgway in 1881 described the 

 Forked-tailed Petrel of the Sandwich Islands ; he after- 

 wards traced it to the Galapagos. Still more recently 

 it has been recognized as an inhabitant of St. Helena 

 and the Salvage Islands in the Atlantic. It has now 

 found a place in our fauna, a bird undoubtedly of this 

 species having been picked up dead on the beach at 

 Littlestone, in Kent, on 5th December, 1895, and passed 

 into the collection of Mr. Boyd Alexander before it was 

 skinned. It has also occurred in North America. 



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