Orier PR0CELLABIIF0RME8 
No. 113. 
Family PELECANOIDIDM 
PELECANOIDES URINATRIX URIXATRIX. 
DIVING PETREL. 
(Plate 94.) 
Peoobllaeia EErNATRix Gmelin, Syst. Nat,, p. 660, 1789 ; New Zealand. 
Diving Petrel, Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds, Vol. Ill,, pt. 2, p. 413, 1786. 
Procellaria urinatrix Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 660, 1789. 
Haladroma ‘‘urinatrix” lUiger, Prodromus, p. 274, 1811. 
Halodroma urinatrix Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 267, 1826. 
Procellaria tridactyla Forster, Descr. Anim., ed. Licht, p. 149, 1844. 
Pufjinuria urinatrix Gould, Ann. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII, p. 366, 1844 ; td., Birds Austr., 
Vol. VII., pi, 60, June Ist, 1844. 
Haladroma urinatrix Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci., Paris, Vol. XLII,, p. 769, 1866 ; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 483, 1866 ; Sandager, Trans. New Zeal. 
Inst., Vol. XXII., p. 289, 1890. 
Pelecanoides urinatrix Gray, List Genera Birds, p. 78, 1840 ; Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Philad. 1866, p. 190 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 313, 1873 ; Hutton, Ibis 1874, 
p. 41 ; Buller, ih., p. 119 ; id., Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 207, 1888 ; 
Salvin, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 437, 1896 (pars) ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 120, 1891 ; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 161, 1901 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 919, 1901 ; Buller, Suppl. Birds New Zeal., 
Vol. I., p. 126, 1906 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 96, 1906 ; Reichenow, Deutsche 
Siidp. Exp., Vol. IX., Zool., pp, 493-668, 1907 (pars) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 18, 1908; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 184, 1910. 
Pelecanoides herardi (not Q, and G.), Buller, Birds New Zeal., p, 314, 1873 ; id.. Birds 
New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 208, 1888 ; Forbes, Ibis 1893, p. 642. 
Pelecanoides exsul (not Salvin) Buller, Suppl. Birds New Zeal., Vol. I., p. 127, 1905. 
Distribution. East Australian seas (New Zealand). 
Adult male. Upper surface glossy blue-black, including the head, back, wings, and 
middle tail-feathers ; some of the scapulars grey with white tips, the small coverts 
round the bend of the wing edged with grey ; primary-quills pale brown on the 
iimer webs ; some of the innermost secondaries fringed with white at the tips ; 
outer tail-feathers pale brown, narrowly edged with white at the tips ; forehead 
sooty-black without any gloss ; sides of face dark slate-grey ; sides of neck and 
fore-neck paler slate-grey with white tips to the feathers, which give a minutely 
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