THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
We have here the first introduction of the word Euopoa, and also can see 
it is not meant as the name of an island, but as the name given to a bird similar 
to the one Solander has described. It will be noted that no specimen from any 
Pacific Island is included, hence the query whether it is the same bird or not. 
The bird figured is the Parkinson drawing No. 23, and is the bird obtained off 
the west of Chili, February 15th, 1769. The October bird, which was duas 
uncias ponderosior,” is one killed when approaching the east coast of the North 
Island of New Zealand. On January 6th, 1770, the voyagers were near Cape 
Marie van Diemen, New Zealand, and on April 11th, 1770, they were more 
than half-way across the Tasman Sea, approaching Bass Strait. All these birds 
would be easily referable to P. grisms Gmelin. 
In his Genera of Birds, Vol. III., p. 647, 1844, Gray included Puffinus pacificus 
(Gmel.), Nectris fuliginosus Sol. MS., Banks’ Icon. ined. t. 23, Proc. fuliginosa 
Kuhl, sp. 27. This shows at once that Gray had referred to the Solander MS., 
and noticing there “ Euopoa,” had concluded that Latham’s species was founded 
on Solander’ s bird. 
Salvin, in the Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 399, 1896, included 
the above entry in his synonymy of jEstrelata macroptera (Smith), and in this 
error he has been followed by Godman in the Monograph, p. 176. The mistake 
is due to the fact of there being two species of Procellaria fuliginosa included in 
Kuhl’s Monograph. The first, Kuhl’s sp. 12, p. 142, founded on Banks’ tab. 19, 
is undoubtedly referable to Pterodroma macroptera (Smith). The second, Kuhl’s 
sp. 27, p. 148, was included in the section Nectris Forst., and diagnosed thus : — 
Sp. 27. Proc. fuliginosa. 
Nectris fuliginosa Banks tab. 23. 
(e) Cauda brevi, cuneiformi, alis longitudine caudae. 
** Unguibus falcularibus. 
The beak fuscous, the lower mandible paler and bluish, the feet of the same colour. 
15th February, 1769, lat. 48° 27 ; longitude 93 Banks. 
This is, of course, referable to P. griseus Gmelin, and accurately to the subspecies 
P. g. chilensis Bonaparte, as I would recognise at present three subspecies : — 
Puffinus griseus griseus (Gmelin) New Zealand ; Australian seas. 
„ griseus chilensis (Bonaparte) West American coasts (breeding ?) 
„ griseus stricklandi Ridgway Atlantic seas {‘t gama Bonaparte). 
In the Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 202, Bonaparte introduced a new species 
as Nectris gama as follows : — 
“X. gama Bp. 1856 {Puffinus cinereus, juv.. Smith, nec Auct.). 111. South-Afr. ZooL, 
Av., t. 56, adult. Mus. Paris, a Verreauxio, 1832, ex Afr, m. et or. Cap. b. Spei. Madag. 
Pacif. Minor : brunneo -fuliginosa ; subtus valde dilutior ; crisso fusco ; rostro breviculo, 
gracili fuscescente, apice flavido ; pedibus congruis, fusco-rufescentibus, tarsis antice 
subflavis.” 
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