Order PROGELLARlIFORMES 
Family EYDROBATIDM. 
No. 80. 
FREGETTA GRALLARIA GRALLARIA. 
WHITE-BELLIED STORM-PETREL. 
(Plate 72 .) 
Procellaeia GRALLARIA Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXV., p. 418, 1817 ; 
Australian seas. 
Procellaria grallaria Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXV., p. 418, 1817. 
Thalassidroma fregetta Gray, List Spee. Birds Brit. Mus., Pt. ni., p. 161, 1844 (pars). 
Thalassidroma grallaria id., Gen. Birds, Vol. III., p. 648, 1844. 
Thalassidroma leucogaster Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., PI. 63, 1847. 
Fregetta grallaria Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 197, 1857 ; Coues, Proe. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Philad. 1864, p. 86 (pars). ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 480, 
1865 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 16, 1908. 
Procellaria {Pelagodroma) grallaria Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 203, 1877. 
Cymodroma grallaria Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, 
Vol. XIII., Pt. II., pp. 363, 418, 1884 (pars) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., 
p. 366, 1896 (pars) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 92, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 875, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 92, 1906 ; Wilson, Nat. 
Antarct. Exp., p. 80, 1907 ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 65, 1907 (pars) ; Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 163, 1910. 
Distribution. Australian seas. 
Adult male. Dark plumbeous-grey on the head and neck ; mantle, back and scapulars 
plumbeous-grey, the feathers narrowly margined with white ; median wing-coverts 
greyish-brown ; lesser wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-co verts and quills black ; 
rump and upper tail-coverts white, some of the feathers with black near the tip ; 
breast, abdomen, axillaries, and inner under wing-coverts pure white ; smaller 
coverts round the margin of the under- wing black ; under tail-coverts black with 
white bases ; bill and feet black, iris brown. Total length 190 mm. ; culmen (exp.) 
13.5, wing 152, tail 70, tarsus 35, middle toe without claw 18. rv 
Female and Young. At present unknown. \ 
Nest and Egg. Undescribed. 
Absolutely nothing is known about this bird’s habits. 
Gould,* probably referring to this species, saj^s : “I observe it to be generally 
distributed over the South Indian Ocean.” 
* Handl. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 480, 1865. 
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