A Specimen of Jouanin’s Petrel 
tram Mslsaaki Island, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 
Eager B. Clapp 
Before dawn on 4 September l$67, as 1 walked along the northwest 
beach of Msisnekt Island (26°02 , B- > w.) in the Sorthweatern 
Hawaiian Islands, I saw a mmll dark .petrel sitting on the .ground near 
that the bird was strange — too large to he a Bulwer 1 s Petrel (Bulwerto 
or a Sooty Storm Petrel 
dark petrels breeding to the Sorthwaetern Hawaiian Islands — I collected 
y 
it by bend. The bird was subsequently frozen and later prepared as a 
scientific specimen (USHM 543185). 
Eater I tentatively idenfcifled the bird as a Jouanto'e Petrel 
failax ) on the basis of its large bill 
The only other 
known only from & stogie fledging male collected at %®i** Fiji* to 
October 1055 and now to the British Museum of Ifeturol History (Bourne, 
1965» Bull.Brit.Ora.Club, 85:99). The specimen was subsequently 
examined by 6.£, Matson, W.R.P. Bourne, and C. Jouanin, an of whoa 
corroborated the identification. Photographs taken by Matson that 
compare the bills of fallax with the type of macgiXlivreyl show that 
the bill of f&l&jpt 1© propwrtionately and absolutely larger and 
deeper. Bourse (pers.conv, 10 April 1968) wrote that the bird was 
apparently "... a typical specimen of Bulwerto faHax . . and 
