Order PR0CELLARIIF0RME8 
No. 100. 
Family PROCELLARIIDM. 
PTERODROMA MELANOPUS. 
BROWN-HEADED PETREL. 
(Plate 84.) 
Procellaeia melanoptjs Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 562, 1789. North America is an error ; 
I designate Norfolk Island. 
Procellaria melanopus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 562, 1789 ; Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., 
Vol. XXV., p. 420, 1817. 
Procellaria solandri Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 363, 1844. 
Procellaria phillipii Gray, Ibis 1862, p. 246. 
Pterodroma solandri Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 450, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 202, 1877 ; ih., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 24, 1888. 
JSstrelata solandri Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1866, p. 148 ; Giglioh and Salvador!, 
Ibis 1869, p. 66 ; Reichenow, Deutsche Siidp. Exp., Zool., p. 485, 1907. 
Fulmarus solandri Gray, Handl. Gen. Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 107, 1871. 
(Estrelata solandri Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 410, 1896 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 907, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 94, 1906 ; 
Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 219, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 176, 1910. 
(Estrelata solanderi Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., p. 17, 1908. 
(Estrelata neglecta Hull, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXXIV., p. 649, 1910 (pars). 
(Estrelata montana id., ih. 1910, Vol. XXXV., p. 785, 1911. 
Petrodroma [sic] solandri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 203, 1912. 
Distribution. East Austrahan seas ; Lord Howe Island (breeding), Norfolk Island 
(? extinct ; formerly breeding). 
Adult (type of P. solandri Gould). Back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts slate-grey with 
dark edgings to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts, bastard-wing, and primary- 
coverts dark brown ; primary-quills also dark brown on the outer webs and at the 
tips, paler on the inner webs, and becoming white at the base ; median and greater 
coverts slate-grey, the secondaries similar but pale brown on the inner webs and 
whitish at the base ; tail dark brown with hoary -grey on some of the outer webs of 
the feathers, pale on the inner webs and also at the base ; head and neck all i^ound 
sooty-brown, the feathers having white bases give a scalloped appearance on the 
forehead and sides of face ; breast pale sooty-brown, becoming dull slate-grey on 
the abdomen, under tail-coverts, and sides of the body ; the feathers on the sides 
of the body slightly edged with white at the tips like the axillaries ; under wing- 
coverts dark brown, the greater under wing-coverts dull white like the base of the 
primaries. Total length 450 mm. ; cuhnen, from base of feathers on forehead, 40 ; 
wing 296, tail 128, tarsus 41. 
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