(Estrelata mollis and its Allies. 
301 
Procellaria melanopus G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 648, no. 5 
(1844) (nec Gm. ? *) ; id. List Anseres Brit. Mus. p. 164 
(1844;. 
Cookilaria mollis Bp. Consp. ii. p. 190 (1855) (syn. 
emend.); Giglioli, Viaggio Magenta, pp. 106, 736, 800 (1875). 
Rhantistes mollis Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 786, no. 25 
(1856). 
(Estrelata mollis Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 453 
(1865) ; Coues, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1866, pp. 150, 170; Gigl. & 
Salvad. Atti Soc. ltal. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 457 (1868)'; iid. Ibis, 
1869, p. 66 : Gigl. Fauna Vert. Oceano, pp. 42, 82 (lat. 42° 
47' S., long. 3° 26' E.—lat. 40° 42' S., long. 53° 20' E. (1870) ; 
Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 63 (1887). 
Fulmarus (Cookilaria) mollis G. R. Gray, Hand-list, iii. 
p. 107, no. 10897 (1871). 
(Estrelata mollis Sharpe, Phil. Trans, clxvii. p. 128 (1877); 
Eaton, ibid. ; Salvin, Ibis, 1877, p. 480 (critical)id. P. Z. S. 
1878, p. 738 (Nightingale I.) ; id. Voy. ‘ Cliall./ Zool. ii. 
pt. viii. p. 144 (1881) ; ? Layard, Ibis, 1882, pp. 539, 544 
(New Caledonia, breeding); Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. of 
S. Afr. p. 766 (seas off the Cape) (1884) ; Buller, Hist. B. 
of New Zeal. (2nd ed.) ii. p. 222 (1888); ? id. Tr & Pr. New 
Zeal. Inst, xxiii. p. 41 (1891) (Sunday I., Kermadec Group?, 
and Otago) ; Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 406 (part.) 
(1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-list Gen. & Spec, of B. i. p. 125, 
no. 9 (partim : Southern Ocean) (1899) ; Hall, Ibis, 1900, 
p 24 (Kerguelen I.). 
Pterodroma ( Estrelata ) mollis Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. 
S. W. ii. p. 202, no. 710 (Tab. List B. Austr. p. 26, no. 710) 
(Tasmania?) (1878). 
* It is extremely doubtful whether the following references belong to 
CE. mollis : - 
Black-toed Petrel Lath. Syn. iii. 2, p. 408, no. 12 (North America) ; 
Penn. Arct. Zool., SuppL p. 73; Lath. Gen. Hist. x. p. 185. 
Procellaria melanopus Gm. S. N. i. p. 562, no. 16 (1788) (ex Latham); 
Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 824, no. 12 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 79, 
no. 15 (1790) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 420 (1817). 
Puffinust melanopus Steph. in Shaw, Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 1, p. 231 
(1826). 
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