NEW ZEALAND BEOAD-BILLED PRION. 
noted the following in his Journal, p. 124 (edited by Wharton, 1893), Aug. 31, 
1769 : “Some Albetfosses, Sheer Waters, and a great many Pintado Birds about 
the Ship with some hundreds of Birds that were smaller than Pidgeons, their 
backs were grey, their Bellies white, and the end of their Tails black, and have a 
blackish line along the upper part of the wings from the tip of one to the other. 
We saw birds very like those near Faulklands Islands on the Coast of Pata- 
gonia, only they had not the blackish streak along the wings ; they fly low like 
sheer waters or mother Cary’s birds, and are perhaps of the same Tribe, for 
Distinction sake I shall call them Doves.” On p. 127, Sept. 29, 1769 : “A 
number of Doves ; of these we have seen more or less ever since the 31st of last 
Month, the day we flrst saw them.” 
At this time Captain Cook was approaching New Zealand, and it is 
interesting to And that Solander described a specimen obtained on the 2nd 
October as follows : — 
latirostris Procellaria supra ca'rulescenti cana, strigo obliqua fusca subtus alba, pedibus 
ca'rulescentibus rostro basi dilatato 
Habitat in Oceano australi Lat. austr. XXXVII : 10 Longit. occ. CLXXI 5 (Octob. 
2, 1769) 
Pihus, Nucha, Cervix, Dorsum & Uropygium pulcre e ca'ruleo cana 
Capitis latera alba ; vitta suboculari plumbea retrorsum extensa 
Gula, lugulum. Pectus, Abdomen et Femora alba 
Crissi Pena' breviores tota' alba', laterales longiores intus plumbei, intermedii toti 
extra medium nigricantes 
Ala' longa' tota' subtus alba', supra cinereo-glauca' 
Fascia oblique nigricante ab angulo cubiti versus Uropygium ducta, qua' sub volatu 
valde conspicua 
Eemiges quatuor primores supra extus nigricantes 
Cauda rotundato-subcuneata, longitudine pedum, a basi extra medium plumbea apice 
nigricans 
Rostrum antice compressum, basi valde dilatatum, incrassatumque 
Mandibula superior a tubo narium ad sinum rima obliqua, cutacea exarata dorso 
subdepresso sed rotundato, nigro ; apice adunca plumbeo ; lateribus infra & pone 
rimam plumbeis, rotundato, dilatatis 
Tubus narium convexus, rostro quadruplo brevior, niger, antice parum elevatus 
subplumbeus, bilocularis 
Dissepimentum subretusum 
Apertura' obovata ; superne angustiores 
Mandibula inferior recta, plumbea, basi dilatata, apice dilutior, parumque adimca, 
utrinque exarata, rima recte cutacea versus apicem ampliata. \ 
Cutis submento rugis plicata 
Oculi nigricantes 
Pedes amoene ca'rulei, ut et Digiti 
Palma albida, subdiaphana, venulis paucis purpurascentibus 
Ungues lanceolati, nigricantes, basi plumbei 
Loco digiti postici Unguis conicus, sessilis niger basi albidus 
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