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which, if any of the two so called allied species, P. berardi from 
Chili, and P. gamotii from Peru, should be included in its 
synonymy, in fact in both instances it is only a matter of the 
colour of the feet, a point in which all writers differ in describing 
them, and a slight difference in the size, characters which have 
been proved even in the same species not to be constant. 
Temininek in his Plauehe Colorizes'*' figures and describes P. 
berardi, and writes as follows “On doit reunir avec cette espece, 
non-seulement le Procellaria urinalrix des auteurs, mais encore 
un autre, figure tres-recemment par M. Lesson, dans l’atlas du 
voyage du capitaine Duperrey, et public, pi. 46, sous le nom de 
Puffin ou Puffinure de. Garnot. On trouve cetto cspece sur les 
niers qui baignent les cotes du Chili; le Pelecano'ide plongeur ou 
Jfaladroma urinatrix vit a l’extromitc meridionale des terres de la 
Nouvelle-Hollande et de la Nouvelle Zelande,” 
Gould in his Birds of Australia includes /’. gamotii from 
Peru as a synonym of P. urinatrix, in which he is followed by 
Dr. Elliot Coues, who has written as follows in the Bulletin of 
the U.S. National Museum, after closely examining a large series 
of Pelecanoides urinatrix, brought to America by Dr. Kidder, 
from Kerguelen Island in 1875:—t“As very strongly intimated 
in my paper, satisfactory diagnosis of the three currently reported 
species of this genus is wanting. Nor is my faith in their 
distinctness increased on finding that these specimens, which from 
the locality undoubtedly represent the original P. urinatrix, are 
fully up to the dimensions of the supposed larger garnoli, from 
the west coast of South America. Observed variation in the colour 
of the feet, which is one point that has been relied upon, lessens 
the probability of distinctness, especially as the ascribed colour¬ 
ation does not coincide in every case with the dimensions. The 
size and proportions of the examples examined, as carefully 
measured in the flesh by Dr. Kidder, warrant mein adducing the 
* Tenuuinck, Blanche Colorizes, Vol. v„ pi. 517 (1838). 
fCouos, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 2, “Contributions to the Natural 
History of Kerguelen Island made in connection with the American 
Transit of Venus Expedition, 1874-5, p. 36.” (1875). 
