GEEY PETREL. 
Forster’s drawing No. 92 is unfinished, as are most of Forster’s drawings, 
only the essentials being filled in at the time, and hence Latham’s imperfect 
description of the bird. This drawing is undoubtedly that of the bird called 
P. cinerea, and has been accepted by all writers who have studied it. 
Godman suggested (p. 156) that the original type of Latham’s Cinereous 
Petrel was the identical bird from which Forster’s drawing No. 92 was made. 
I think this a most reasonable proposition, and as we know that that bird was 
killed in lat. 48° S. Pacific, I designate New Zealand seas (48° S.) as the type- 
locality of Procellaria cinerea Gmelin ; and as P. gelida Gmelin depends upon 
the same bird it becomes an absolute synonym of P. cinerea Gmelin. 
Godman also noted (p. 156) that Latham’s description of a second Cinereous 
Petrel {Gen. Synops., Suppl., Vol. II., p. 335, 1801) does not refer to this bird. 
I have recognised the description as being based on the Watling drawings. Nos. 
280-1, which have been recently discussed by Iredale {Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 
1910, Vol. XXV., p. 779, 1911). Misled by the idea that the Norfolk Island 
Puffinus had been correctly identified as P. griseus, and also by the colour of 
the soft parts of that species given in the Plate in the Monograph, Iredale 
identifies these drawings with that species. I, however, would in preference 
suggest that these have been made from P. carneipes hullianus, but in the present 
imperfect state of our knowledge of these Pufflnus, we can only consider this 
identification tentative. 
Coues, in 1864, fixed the identity of P. cinerea Gmelin, following Lawrence 
and Bonaparte ; previously it had been used by European authors generally 
for the species now known as Pufflnus griseus Gmelin. A reminder of this 
misusage persists in the Monograph of the Petrels, where, on p. 159, treating of 
this bird under the name Priofnus cinereus, a long extract is given from Darwin’s 
account of his P. cinerea off South America. That quotation undoubtedly 
refers to Puffnus griseus Gmelin, as can at once be recognised by one familiar 
with these birds in the Southern Hemisphere. 
This bird was met with off New Zealand by Solander, who described it as 
follows : — 
pallipes Procellaria supra cinerea, subtus alba, pedibus palmisque albidis, rostro plumbeo ; 
lateribus albidis 
Habitat in Oceano australi. Lat. austr. XXXVII : 10, Long. occ. CLXII ; 5 (Octob. 2, 
1769) 
Caput supra e fusco-cinereum, subtus album 
Cervix, Dorsum & Uropygium cinerea ' 
Gula, Jugulum, Pectus, Abdomen & Femora alba 
Crissi penna' breviores tota' alba', longiores apice cinerea' 
Ala' longa' cinerea', supra obscuriores 
Cauda utrinque obscure cinerea, rotundata, pedibus brevior 
Rostrum compressum, apice aduncum 
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