THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
The bird figured and described is a male, which was picked up dead on 
Bondi Beach, near Sydney, New South Wales, in March, 1904. 
In connection with the synonymy given in the Monograph of the Petrels, the 
following points should be noted : Procellaria grisea Gmelin was given to 
Latham’s description of a bird which was in the Leverian Museum, the habitat 
being given as the Southern Hemisphere, from 35° to 50° S. The original 
descriptions of Gmelin and Latham are here attached : — 
Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 564, 1789. 
Procellaria grisea, p. 564. 
Pr. fuliginosa, tectricibus alarum inferioribus albis, rostro fusco, pedibus anterius ex 
virescente cinereis. 
Dark Grey Petrel, Cook, it. I., p. 258. 
Grey Petrel, Lath. syn. III., 2, p. 399, n. 4. 
Habitat in hemisphaerio australi, inter 35° et 50°, 14-15 poUices longa. 
Alae cauda paulo longiores ; tectricum inferiorum scapi nigri. 
Latham’s description reads : — 
Dark grey Petrel, Cook’s Voy. I., p. 258. 
Lev. Mus. 
Size of a Jack-daw ; length fourteen or fifteen inches. Bill two inches long, and brown ; 
the whole plumage black, or sooty ; the under wing-coverts white, with black shafts ; the wings 
rather exceed the tail in length ; the forepart of the legs greenish blue. 
The specimen in the Leverian Museum has the chin and throat of a whitish colour. 
Inhabits the southern hemisphere, from 35 to 50 degrees. Seems much allied to the 
Black Petrel. 
Geo. Forster’s drawing No. 94 is pencilled Procellaria fuliginosa? and is the 
drawing of the bird from which J. R. Forster’s description of Procellaria tristis 
(Descr. Anhn., ed. Licht, p. 205, 1844) (not p. 23, as given in the Monograph 
of the Petrels), was prepared. The extract reads as follows : — 
Forster's Descr. Anim., p. 205, 1844. 
Procellaria tristis F. 
(Fig. pict G). 
Procellaria fuliginosa, rostro fusco, pedibus artice glaucis. 
Habitat in Oceano antarctico in lat 48° et ultra in austrum. 
Corpus magnitudine circiter Gorvi frugilegi L. Rostrum vix longitudine capitis, compressum, 
gracile, apice utraque, mandibula arcuata. Mandibula superior sulco a naribus obliquo, 
desinente ante curvaturam rostri ; inferior sulco parallels, coerulescens. Nares superae 
distinctae, tubulosae, longitudine ^ rostri, apice oblique truncatae, apertura ovali. 
Lingua brevis, lanceolata, acuta, marginibus postice retrorsum serratis. Palatum 
triplice serie retrorsum carinato-serratum Oculi submedii ; iride fusca. Pedes tridactyli, 
natatorii ; femora tecta ; genua nuda ; tibiae antice coerulescente, postico fusco- 
fuliginosae; membrana utrimque ad digitos interiorem et exteriorem decurrens. 
Ungues parum incuri ccerulescentes. Unguis brevis, niger, conicus, sessilis, loco digit! 
postici. Corpus fuhginosum totum. Remiges extus atrae, intus fuscae. Remix extima 
longissima, 1-10 sensim decrescentes ; reliquae multo breviores. Tectrices subtus albae, 
rachi nigra. Rectrices 12 atrae, cauda rotundata. 
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