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590. Procellaria Atlantica, Gould. 
Procellctria Atlantica , Gould in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 
vol. xiii. p. 362. 
Male : the whole of the plumage deep chocolate-black ; bill and 
feet jet-black. 
This is one of the commonest species inhabiting the Atlantic, and 
no ship passes between our shores and the Cape of Good Hope 
without encountering it; it is a species respecting which very con- 
siderable confusion exists in the writings of nearly all the older 
authors. It is the P. fuliginosa of Forster’s Drawings, No. 93 B, 
and the P. fuliginosa of Lichtenstein’s edition of Forster’s MSS. 
p. 23, which term cannot be retained, as it had already been applied 
by Latham to a very different bird from Otaheite ; it is the P.grisea 
of Kuhl but not of Linnaeus, who has given the term to another 
species, consequently grisea cannot be retained for it. ; and hence I 
have been induced to give it a new appellation, and thereby prevent 
misapprehension for the future. 
591. Procellaria macroptera, Smith. 
Procellaria macroptera , Smith, Zool. of South Africa, Aves, pi. 52. 
I think that a bird I killed in the seas off Van Diemen’s Land, 
where it was tolerably abundant, and which differs from the last 
in being of a larger size, having much longer wings and a greyer 
face, may be identical with the P. macroptera of Smith, and I there- 
fore retain it under that appellation, in preference to assigning it a 
new name. 
592. Procellaria Solandri, Gould. 
Procellaria Solandri , Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XII. 
p. 57 ; and in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. xiii. p. 363. 
Head, back of the neck, shoulders, primaries and tail dark brown ; 
back, wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts slate-grey, each feather 
margined with dark brown ; face and all the under surface brown, 
washed with grey on the abdomen ; bill, tarsi, toes and membranes 
black. 
This is a remarkably robust and compact bird. I shot a single 
individual in Bass’s Straits on the 13th of March 1839. M. Nat- 
terer thought that it might possibly be identical with the bird figured 
in Banks’s drawings, and to which Dr. Solander has affixed the term 
melanopus , an opinion in which I cannot concur; I have therefore 
named it in honour of that celebrated botanist. The specimen above 
described may possibly prove to be not fully adult, as the dark 
colouring of the under surface only occupies the extreme tips of the 
feathers, the basal portions of which are snow-white. 
593. Procellaria Glacialoides, Smith .... Vol. VII. PI. 48. 
594. Procellaria Lessonii, Gam Vol. VII. PI. 49. 
595. Procellaria mollis, Gould Vol. VII. PI. 50. 
596. Procellaria Cookii, G. R. Gray . . . Vol. VII. PI. 51. 
