Ord£!r PEOCELLABIIFOBMES 
No. 95. 
Family PROCELLABIIDM. 
PROCELLARIA PARKINSONI. 
BLACK PETREL. 
(Plate 80.)* 
Procellabia parkinsoni Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 245, New Zealand. 
Procellaria 'parlcinsoni Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 245 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 302, 1873 ; 
Reischek, Trans. New Zeal. Inst., 1885, Vol. XVIII., p. 87, 1886. 
Pufjfinus parkinsoni Pelzeln, Reise Novara, Vogel, p. 144, 1865. 
Majaqueus parkinsoni Hutton, Ibis, 1869, p. 351 ; id., Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1870, Vol. III.> 
p. Ill, 1871 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 242, 1888 ; Salvin, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 397, PI. V., 1896 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 93, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 899, 1901; Buller, Suppl. Birds New 
Zeal., Vol. I., p. 109, 1905 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 93, 1906 ; Mathews, HandL 
Birds Austral., p. 17, 1908 ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 174, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. 
Birds Tasm., p. 173, 1910. 
Fulmarus parkinsoni Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 108, 1871. 
Distribution. Australian and New Zealand seas. 
Adidt male. Entire plumage, both above and below, sooty-black, with no white on the 
head; bill yellow, culmen and tip black, iris hazel, feet black. Total length 
545 mm; culmen 42, wing 348, tail 110, tarsus 54. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Total length 530 mm. ; culmen 40, wing 337, 
tail 101, tarsus 52. 
Nest. A few leaves placed at the end of a burrow (Hutton). 
Egg. Clutch one ; pure white ; axis 72 mm., diameter 51. 
Breeding -season. November and December. 
The only definite record I can trace of this bird’s occurrence is that of Masters 
{Proc. Linn. 8oc. A.N.IV. 1878, Vol. III., p. 21), who exhibited a specimen shot 
near Sydney Heads, and noted it was the first record. 
This species has a much smaller bill than P. cequinoctialis, and never has 
any white on the head or throat. From specimens of P. cequinoctialis it can 
always be distinguished by its smaller bill and smaller size generally, and entire 
absence of white on the throat. 
* The Plate is lett ered Majaqueus parkinsoni. 
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