Order PR0CELLARIIF0RME8 
Family PROCELLARIIDM. 
No. 98. 
PTERODROMA MACROPTERA GOULDI. 
EASTEEN GEEY-FACED PETEEL. 
(Plate 83.)* 
^STEELATA GOULDI Hutton, Ibis, 1869, p. 351 ; New Zealand. 
^strelata gouldi Hutton, Ibis 1869, p. 351. 
Procellaria macroptera Smith ? Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 362, 1844. 
Pterodroma macroptera Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 449, 1865. 
JEstrelata gouldi Hutton, Ibis 1869, p. 351 ; id., Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1869, Vol. II., p. 79, 
1870. 
Procellaria gouldii Einsch, Journ, fiir Ornith., 1870, p.372; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 308, 
1873 ; Reischek, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1885, Vol. XVIII., p. 90, 1886 ; Sandager, 
ib. 1889, Vol. XXII., p. 292, 1890. 
Fulmarus atlanticus Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. Ill,, p. 107, 1871. 
Procellaria fuliginosa Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 304, 1873. 
Pterodroma atlantica Ramsay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W. 1877, Vol. II., p. 202 ; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 24, 1888. 
(Estrelata fuliginosa Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II,, p. 221, 1888. 
Majaqueus gouldi id., ib., p. 245. 
Majaqueus gouldii Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 24, 1888. 
(Estrelata fuliginosa Salvin, Ibis 1888, p. 360 ; Buller, Suppl. Birds New Zeal., Vol. I., 
p. 118, 1905. 
Pterodroma gouldii Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 24, 1888. 
(Estrelata macroptera Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 399, 1896 (pars) ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 93, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 902, 1901 ; 
Ogilvie- Grant, Ibis 1905, p. 554 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 93, 1906 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 17, 1908 ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 176, 1908 (pars) ; 
Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 173, 1910. 
(Estrelata gouldi BuUer, Suppl. Birds New Zeal., Vol. I., p. Ill, 1905. 
Histeibution. East Australian and New Zealand seas. 
Adult male. Sooty-black above and below ; forehead, lores, chin, and throat greyish ; 
bill and feet black ; iris hazel. Total length 392 mm. ; culmen 36, wing 320, tail 
135, tarsus 41. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature nestling. Greyish-black down (Sandager). 
Nest. “ In large chamber at end of a burrow, lined with a few leaves and grass ” (Reischek). 
Egg. Clutch, one ; pure white ; axis 68 mm., diameter 50. 
Breeding-season. June ; September (Reischek). 
*The Plate is lettered (Estrelata macroptera. 
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