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Prlrcaxoidrs urinatrix, Gmelin . The Diving Petrel. 
Gould , llandbk. fids, Anstr ., Vol. ii., sp. 650, p. 483. 
John Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster, who accom- 
panied Captain Cook as naturalists during his second voyage in 
1772 made drawings of this bird to which the native name of 
Tee-tee was applied ; in Forster’s Voyage, Vol. i., p. 189, it is 
referred to as the little Diving Petrel, a name by which it was 
subsequently described under, by Dr. Latham in 1785.* Later 
on f -Gmelin inserted it in his Systema Naturae, under the designa- 
tion of Procell aria nrinatrix , and in 1800 tLacepede substituted 
the generic term Pelecanoides for that of Procellaria } which is 
generally used by authors for this species at the present time. 
The Diving Petrel has a most extensive range of habitat, and of 
no pelagic species found in the extreme southern seas, does so 
much doubt and difference of opinion exist amongst authors as to 
which, if any of the two so called allied species, 1\ berardi from 
Chili, and P. garnotii from Peru, should be included in its 
synonymy, in fact in both instances it is only a matter of the 
colour of the feet, a point in which all writers differ in describing 
them, and a slight difference in the size, characters which have 
been proved even in the same species not to be constant. 
Temminck in his Planche Dolor iees§ figures and describes P. 
berardi, , and writes as follows : “On doit reunir avec cette espece, 
non-sou lenient le Procell, wria nrinatrix des auteurs, mais encore 
un autre, figure tros-recemment par M. Lesson, dans 1 ’atlas du 
voyage du capitaine Duperrey, et public, pi. 46, sous le notn de 
Puffin ou Puffinure de Gar not. On trouve cette espece sur les 
mers qui baignent les cotes du Chili ; le PtfMcanoide plongeur ou 
ITahidroma nrinatrix \ it a 1’extrcmitc meridionale des terres de la 
Nouvelle-Hollande et de la Nouvelle Zelande.” 
Gould in his Birds of Australia includes P . garnotii from 
Peru as a synonym of P. nrinatrix , in which he is followed by 
Dr. Elliot Coues, who has written as follows in the Bulletin of 
the U.S. National Museum, after closely examining a large series 
of Pelecanoides nrinatrix , brought to America by Dr. Kidder, 
from Kerguelen Island in 1875: — ||“As very strongly intimated 
in my paper, satisfactory diagnosis of the three currently reported 
species of this genus is wanting. Nor is my faith in their 
distinctness increased on finding that these specimens, which from 
the locality undoubtedly represent the original P. nrinatrix , are. 
fully up to the dimensions of the supposed larger P. garnoti , from 
the west coast of South America. Observed variation in the colour 
* Latham, Gen. Syn. Bds., Vol. iii.,pt. 2, p. 413 (1785). 
f Gmelin, Systema Naturte, I., p. 560 (1788). 
X Lacepede, Mem. de lTnst., p. 517 (1800). 
§ Tenuuinck, Planche Coloriees, Vol. v., pi. 517 (1838). 
|| Coues, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 2, “Contributions to the Natural 
History of Kerguelen Island made in connection with the American 
Transit of Venus Expedition, 1874-5, p. 36.” (1875). 
