Order PR0CELLAR1IF0RME8 
No. 93. 
Family PROCELLARIIDM, 
PROCELLARIA ^QUINOCTIALIS CONSPICILLATA. 
SPECTACLED PETREL. 
(Plate 79.)* 
P EOCELLARIA CONSPICILLATA Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 363, 1844 ; 
Australian seas. 
Procdlaria conspicillata Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 362, 1844 ; id., Birds 
Austr.,Vol. VII., PI. 46., 1848 ; Reichenow, Deutsche Siidp. Exp., Zool., p. 483, 1907. 
Majaqueus conspicillatus Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. Paris, Vol. XLII., p. 768, 
1856 ; Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1864, pp, 118, 142 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 445, 1865. 
Fulmarus conspicillatus Gray, Haiidl. Gen. Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 108, 1871. 
Fulmarus [Majaqueus) conspicillatus Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 202,. 
1877. 
Cymatoholus conspicillatus Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 363, 1890. 
Majaqueus cequinoctialis Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 395, 1896 (pars) ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 93, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 897, 
1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 93, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 17, 1908 (pars) ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 169, 1908 ; Littler, Handb, Birds 
Tasm., p. 172, 1910. 
Majaqueus conspiceLlatus Scott and Sharpe, Rep. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, Vol. II., 
p. 143, 1910. 
Distribution, Australian seas. 
Adult male. General colour above and below sooty, the feathers margined with brown ; a 
band of white commences on the chin and extends backward along the cheeks to 
the sides of the head, but is not joined on the occiput ; another band extends from 
the chin, in front of the eyes, across the crown of the head. “ Nostrils and sides of the 
mandibles yellowish hom-colour ; culmen, tips of both mandibles, and a groove 
running along the lower mandible black ; feet black ” (Gould). Total length 476 mm. 
culmen (exp.) 53, wing 368, tail 115, tarsus 66. 
Adult female and young. Unknown. 
Nest, Egg, and Breeding-season. Unknown. 
* The Plate is lettered Majaqueus cequmoctialis. 
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