THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
and they then gave detailed measurements of specimens from various localities, 
using for a series from the Pelew Islands Finsch’s name of P. didirous, though 
they acknowledged that the type of that species was smaller than any of the 
Pelew birds. They also pointed out that a specimen from the Viti Islands, col- 
lected by Dr. Graeffe, and previously recorded by Finsch {Faun. Gentr. Polyn., 
pp. 243 and 280) as P. nugax (=P. assimilis) was not referable to that species, but 
approached their P. auduboni, and had the under tail-coverts fuliginous black. 
In the Ibis, 1873, p. 47, Pelzeln introduced Pu^nus tenebrosus for the bird 
ri liatlram, in his description of his Dusky Petrel, as being in the 
Leverian Museum. The description given is : — 
P. corpore supra nigrescente brunneo, subtus albo ; lateribus colli pectorisque plumarum 
limbis albis, tectricibus alarum anguste albo marginatis, tectricibus caudae inferioribus 
lateralibus nigricantibus albo terminatis, rostro obscure corneo, maxillae basi infra nares et 
mandibulae parte inferiore flavescentibus, pedibus flavidis, tarsis solummodo linea anteriore 
et posteriore, digitoque externo extus obscuris. Longit. 12^5 s-l^^ 7" 8'" ab apice rectricum 
ad finem secundariarum 2" 6'" ; rectricum mediarum longit. SJ", lat. 9'" ; rectrices laterales 
8'", breviores ; tarsi longit. 1" 5"', lat. S'" ; longit. digiti externi 16"', unguis 2"' , digiti 
medii 16'", unguis 3'", digiti interni 12"', unguis 2P" ; rostri a fronte 11"', a naribus 9"', a 
rictu 17'". 
Hob . — King George’s Sound, on the American coast ? 
In the Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, Heft VIII., p. 44, 1875, Finsch practically 
reprints the review given in the Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1872, but includes in 
his comparative measurements those of the type of P. tenebrosus Pelzeln. In 
the first volume of Rowley’s Ornithological Miscellany, Salvin commenced some 
notes on Petrels, and, dealing with the Parkinson drawings in the British 
Museum, wrote : — 
p. 224] They all bear the signature of Sidney Parkinson ; the date when, and frequently the 
latitude and longitude where they were made, are also written upon them. This much is 
entered in ink ; but besides these marks they have notes in pencil inscribed upon them in 
another handwriting and evidently by some one who was present at the time the sketches 
were executed. These pencil notes always include a generic and specific name which corre- 
spond with those employed in Solander’s MS., to which I have had access. 
p. 226] And Gray, in his Hand List, includes many of Solander’s names, but omits (as he often 
did) to state that they were only names, unaccompanied by any published description by 
which they could be identified. 
The remark (p. 226) is scarcely fair, as when Gray introduced the Solander 
names into literature twenty-seven years previously to his Hand List (a fact 
apparently overlooked by Salvin), he carefully noted against each name 
“ Solander MS.” On the same page Salvin added : — 
The original notes on the Albatrosses we succeeded in finding, but with those on the Petrels 
we were not so fortunate. This loss is in a great measure remedied by notes in an interleaved 
copy of the twelfth edition of Linnaeus’s “ Systema Naturae,” formerly in Solander’s possession, 
and evidently compiled by him from his own manuscripts. These notes consist of concise 
Latin diagnoses, to which generic and specific names are attached. 
This explanation is necessary, as on p. 236 we are given the attached diagnosis 
of Nectris munda: — 
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