Oedek TUBINAEES.] 
[Fam. peocellariid^. 
(ESTRELATA ETJLIGINOSA. 
(SOOTY PETREL.) 
Procellaria fuliginosa, Kuhl, Monogr. Procell. p. 142, pi. x. fig. 6 (1820). 
Procellaria atlantica, Gould, Ann. N. H. xiii. p. o62 (1844). 
Procellaria macroftera. Smith, Zool. of South Africa, Aves, pi. lii. (1849). 
Pterodroma fuliginosa, Bonap. C. K. xlii. p. 768 (1856). 
Pterodroma atlantica, Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 191 (1857). 
^dr data fuliginosa, Coues, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1866, p. 157. 
Fulmarus atlanticus, Gray, Hand-1, of B. iii. p. 107 (1871). 
Procellaria fuliginosa, Buller, Birds of New Zealand, 1st ed. p. 304 (1873). 
.4^^. omnino faliginoso-niger, gutture pallidiore; subtus brunneo lavatus : rostro et pedibus uigris : hide nigra. 
Adult Entire plumage sooty or brownish blaek, paler on the throat, and tinged with brown on the nnderparts^ 
tides, billfandLblaek. Total length 17-5 inches; wing, from flexure, 12-5 ; tad 5 ; bdl, ollowmg the 
curvature of upper mandible 1-75, length of lower mandible 1-75 ; tarsus 1-5 ; middle toe and claw 2 4. 
This species which ranges over both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, inhabits the seas all round 
New Zealand, but seldom approaches the land. If I was right in my identification of those observed 
on the wing during a passage from Auckland to Sydney in July 1871, this Petrel is a lemaikably 
powerful flier, coursing about with the activity of a Martin, and generally near t^he surface ; but it is 
ilmost impossible to distinguish the various allied species with any certainty by merely observing 
them from the deck of a ship. t-, n > n i* + • 
Of this species Mr. Salvia says (Ibis, 1888, p. 360)-.-“ Sir Walter Bullet's coUectiou contaurs 
two specimens attributed to P. poaHi, Hutton. They agree with one m the British Museum fiom 
the coast of Tasmania, referred by Gould to P. macropUra, Smith. These 1 have compaied ivit 
large series from the South Atlantic Ocean, the Cape Seas, and elsewhere ; and though they are 
rather larger and (especially the New-Zealaud specimen) have stronger bills, I do not thm e 
differences sufficiently constant or important to justify the recognition of more than one form o ns 
widely-ranging species. Some stress has been laid upon the greyness of the face of P. }ouU, ; but 
this character, too, fails, and a specimen before me with a short wing has the chin whi e. 
