Order PR0GELLARIIF0BME8 
No. 107. 
Family PROCELLARIIDM. 
PRION VITTATUS VITTATUS. 
NEW ZEALAND BROAD-BILLED PRION. 
Procellakia vittata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 560, 1789 ; New Zealand. 
Broad-billed Petrel Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds, Vol. III., pt. 2, p. 414, 1785. 
Procellaria vittata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 560, 1789. 
Procellaria forsteri Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 827, 1790. 
Procellaria latirostris Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ency. Meth. Orn., Vol. I., p. 81, 1791. 
PacJiyptila '^vittata ” Illiger, Prodromus, p. 275, 1811. 
Pachyptila forsteri Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 251, 1826 ; Jardine 
and Selby, lU. Ornith., Vol. I., pi. 47, 1828. 
Prion “ vittata ” Lesson, Manuel d’Orn., Vol. II., p. 400, 1828. 
Prion '' forsteri” Lesson, Traite d’Orn., p. 613, 1831. 
Pachyptila vittata Temminck, Plan. Color. d’Ois., 89® hvr., Vol. V., pi. 528, 1832. 
Prion vittatus Gray, List Gen. Birds, p. 78, 1840 ; Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 55, 
1844 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 474, 1865 ; Layard, Ibis 1862, p. 97 ; 
Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1866, p. 169 (pars) ; Travers, Trans. New Zeal. 
Inst. 1872, Vol. V., p. 220, 1873 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 312, 1873 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 203, 1877 ; Sharpe, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 
Vol. 168, p. 135, 1879 (pars) ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 212, 
1888 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 24, 1888 ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. XXV., p. 432, 1896 (pars); North, Birds County Cumber., p. 115, 1898; Oates, 
Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit, Mus., Vol, I,, p. 160, 1901 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, p. 914, 1901 ; Buller, Suppl. Birds New Zeal,, Vol. I,, p. 123, 1905 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p, 95, 1906 ; Wilson, National Antarct. Exp., Aves, p. 104, 
1907 ; Reichenow, Deutsche Siidp, Exp., Zool., pp. 490, 556, 1907 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 18, 1908 ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 285, 1909 ; 
Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 181, 1910. 
Prion magnirostris, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1862, p. 125. 
Prion australis Potts, Ibis 1873, p. 85. 
Distribution. Australian and New Zealand seas. 
Adult male. General colour above dark blue-grey, including the head, hind-neck, sides of 
breast, back, scapulars, and tail ; lesser wing-coverts dusky-brown becoming darker 
and inclining to black on the bastard- wing and primary-coverts, the latter edged with 
white at the tips ; the four outer primary-quiUs black on the outer webs, white on the 
inner ones, with black shafts ; inner primaries and secondaries pale blue-grey with 
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