Order PB0CELLABIIF0BME8 
No. no. 
Family PBOGELLABIIDJE. 
PSEUDOPRION TURTUR TURTUR. 
AUSTRALIAN FAIRY-PRION. 
(Plate 93.) 
Peocellaeia tuetue Kuhl, Beitr Zool. vergl. Anat., p. 143, 1820; Bass Strait. 
Procellaria turtur Kuhl, Beitr Zool. vergl. Anat., p. 143, 1820. 
Prion turtur Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 366, 1844 ; id., Birds Austr., 
Vol. VII., pi. 54, 1844 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 472, 1865. 
Prion ariel id., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 366, 1844 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
Introd., p. xcix, 1848 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 473, 1865 ; North, 
Birds County Cumber., p. 115, 1898 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 95, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 918, 1901 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 95, 1906 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 18, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 184, 
1910. 
Halobcena typica Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 194, 1857. 
Procellaria ariel Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas., Vol. VI., Procell., p. 18, 1863. 
Pseudoprion turtur Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PhUad. 1866, p. 166. 
Pseudoprion ariel id., ib. 
Prion brevirostris ariel Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVHI., p. 204, 1912. 
Disteubution. Australian seas. 
Adult. Smaller in general measurements than members of the genera Prion and 
Heteroprion, paler in colour and with a distinctly smaUer and more compressed bUl. 
Culmen (exp.) 22mm., width of bUl 10, wmg 180, taU 82, tarsus 30. 
Nest. In crevices of rock or under the densely-matted stems and roots of pig-face weed 
(CampbeU). 
Egg. Clutch, one ; pure white, surface dull ; axis 41-43, diameter 30-33. 
Breeding-season. October, November, and December (CampbeU). 
Mr. A. J. Campbell found this bird breeding on North-east Island on 
24th November, 1890. “ It was breeding in numbers in the crevices 
of rock or under the densely-matted stems and roots of the pig-face weed. 
Several birds and many eggs (the latter in an advanced state of incubation) 
were secured.” He also records it breeding on Albatross Rock and Craggy 
Island. 
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