THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
P. a. steadij subsp* n. ; Type no. 10,165 in my collection; New Zealand seas. 
Breeding on Antipodes and Auckland Islands. Fully dealt with 
in next article. 
P, a. conspicillata Gould. Australian seas. Breeding-place unknown. 
The male figured and described was collected at sea on the 19th March, 
1862, by Mr. Leach, who gave me the specimen. 
In the Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 362, 1844, Gould wrote as 
follows : “I have some specimens in my possession of a Petrel which I observed 
to be very abundant in the Atlantic and Pacific, and which have a broad stripe 
of white crossing the forehead, passing down before and beneath the eye, and 
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