Order TUBINARES.] 
[Fam. PROCELLARIID.E. 
ADAMASTOE CINEEEUS. 
(BROWN PETREL.) 
Cinereous Fulmar, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 405 (1785). 
Procellaria cinerea, Gm. Syst. Nat, i. p. 563 (1788, ex Lath.). 
Procellaria Jicesitafa, Forster, Descr. An. p. 208 (1844). 
Procellaria hasitata, Gould, B. Austr. fol. pi. 47 (1848). 
Priojinus cinereus, Bonap. C. R. xlii. p. 769 (1856). 
Adamastor typus, Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 187 (1857). 
Puffimis cinereus, Lawr. B. of N. Am. p. 835 (1860), 
Puffinus Tculilii, Cass. Proc. Phil. Acad. 1862, p. 327. 
Procellaria adamastor, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Procell. p. 25 (1863). 
Procellaria cinerea, Buller, Birds of New Zealand, 1st ed. p. 305 (1873). 
Native name. — Kuia. 
Ad. supra cinerascenti-brunneus, dorsi plumis et supracaudalibus pallidiore brunneo terminatis ; remigibus et 
rectricibus brunnesceuti-nigris : facie et colli lateribus obscure cinerascentibus brunneo variis : subtus 
albus, pectoris lateribus brunneo lavatis : rostro flavo, versus apicem nigricante : pedibus sordide flavis ; 
iride nigra. 
Adult. Crown of the bead, back of the neck, and all the upper surface greyish brown, the feathers of the back 
and the upper tail-coverts edged with paler brown ; the face and sides of the neck dusky grey mottled with 
brown ; throat, fore neck, and all the underparts pure white, stained on the sides of the breast with brown ; 
quills and tail-feathers brownish black. Irides black ; bill yellow, stained towards the tips with black ; legs 
and feet dull yellow. Total length 20 inches ; wing, from flexure, 13'25 j tail 5'5 ; bill, following the 
curvature of upper mandible 2'5, from gape to extremity of lower mandible 2’5 ; tarsus 2 ; middle toe and 
claw 2'6. 
Pkofessoe Hutton states that this species is “ very common on the coast ; ” but I have never myself 
seen a specimen in New Zealand, nor do the local museums contain any. That it is extremely 
abundant, however, in certain latitudes may be inferred from the following notice of this Petrel 
in Darwin’s ‘ Voyage of a Naturalist : ’ — “ I do not think T ever saw so many birds of any one sort 
together as I once saw of these behind the island of Chiloe. Hundreds of thousands flew in an 
irregular line for several hours in one direction. When part of the flock settled on the water the 
surface was blackened, and a noise proceeded from them as of human beings talking in the 
distance.” 
There are tw'o specimens in Mr. Salvin’s collection received from Whitely as having been obtained 
in “ New-Zealand seas.” These are male and female. 
I met with a large flock of them, in the month of August, about 300 miles eastward of Australia. 
They appeared to he active on the wing and very restless. 
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