Oedeb TUBIN' AEES.] 
[Fam. PROCELLAEIID^. 
MAJAQUETJS GOULDL 
(GREY-FACED PETREL.) 
Pterodroma macroptera, Gould, Handb. B. of Austr. ii. p. 449 (1865, nec Smith). 
jPlstrelata gouldii, Hutton, Trans. N.-Z. Inst. ii. p. 79 (1869). 
Procellaria gouJdi, Hutton, Cat. Birds N. Z. p. 47 (1871). 
Procellaria gouldi, Buller, Birds of New Zealand, 1st ed. p. 308 (1873). 
Native name. — Oii. 
Ad. fuliginoso-niger, subtus brunnescentior : fronte, loris et facie antica albicanti-cinereis : rostro et pedibus nigris ; 
iride nigr^. 
Adult male. General plumage sooty black, tinged Avith brown on the underparts ; forehead and parts surrounding 
the base of the bill whitish grey, shading gradually into the darker plumage. Irides, bill, and feet black. 
Total length 17 inches; wing, from flexure, 12; tail 5; bill, along the ridge 2, along the edge of lower 
mandible 1-75 ; tarsus 1-5 ; middle toe and claw 2-5. 
Female. Differs from the other sex only in having the plumage more suffused with brown, many of the feathers 
of the back, breast, and under tail-coverts being margined with pale brown. 
Young. There is a full-grown fledgling in the Auckland Museum, in which the plumage is as in the adult, but 
Avith long thick down of a sooty-grey colour still adhering to the breast, and some paler-coloured down on 
the throat. Obtained on the Hen Island in the Hauraki group. 
Nestling. Covered with dingy slaty- grey down; the black feathers appear first on the head and in four or five 
parallel series on the cheeks. The down is long, thick, and fluffy, especially on the underparts ; and the 
bill and feet arc perfectly black. 
Remarks. The form of this Petrel is rather slender ; the tail is long and cuneate ; and the wings, when folded, 
extend about half an inch beyond it. 
I HAVE taken the above description from the type specimen in the Auckland Museum. Professor 
Hutton, who first distinguished the species, observes :■ — “ It is very common on the Tasmanian and 
New-Zealand coasts, and is undoubtedly the bird that Mr. Gould refers to as the dark Petrel with a 
grey face, which he shot off the coast of Tasmania, and which he suggests might be Procellaria 
macroptera of Dr. A. Smith. According to that author, however, the bird he called P. macroptera 
has no grey face, but a white circle round the eye and reddish-brown legs and feet, in all of which 
respects it differs from the present bird .... I am informed by Mr. Kirk that this bird breeds in holes 
on a little island called Kitakita, near the Kawau, and that when attacked by dogs fights hard for its 
life, often tearing open their noses with its sharp curved bill, and in this respect differing remarkably 
from P. parlcinsoni, which Ave found on the Little Barrier Island to surrender at discretion, without 
any fighting.” 
As already stated on p. 221, Mr. Salvin disallows this species ; but I have thought it safer to 
retain it for the present, especially as Dr. Finsch writes : — “ I got the type specimen from the Auckland 
