Order PR0CELLAR1IF0RMES. 
No. 11. 
Family PROCELLARIIDJE. 
PTERODROMA NEGLECTA. 
KERMADEC PETREL. 
(Plate 11.) 
Pterobroma Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. (Paris), Vol. NLII., p. 768, May 1856. 
Type (by subsequent designation, Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pkilad., p. 137, 1866) : 
Procellaria macroptera Smith. 
Procellaria reglecta Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. VI., Procell., p. 10, July 1863 : Kermadec 
Islands. 
Procellaria neglecta Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. VI., Procell., p'. 10, July 1863. 
CEstrelata neglecta Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 412, 1896 (pref. July 30th, 1895); 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., p. 17, Jan. 1908 ; Godman, Monograph Petrels, p. 226, 
pi. 64, pt. iii., Sept. 1908. 
CEstrelata leucophrys Hutton, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1893, p. 752, pi. 63, April 1st, 1894 : Sunday 
Island, Kermadec Islands. 
Rhantistes raoiilensis Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 412, 1896 (earl}'), (pref. July 30th, 
1895) as synonym of CEstrelata neglecta (ex R. raolensis [sic] Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus 
Acad. Sci. (Paris), Vol. XLII., p. 210, April 28th, 1856, ex Gould MS.). 
Pterodroma neglecta Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 168, July 31st, 1912 ; Mathews and Iredale, 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. IV., p. 109, Dec. 16th, 1920 ; Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., p. 119, 
1927. 
Pterodroma neglecta quintali Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 68, April 7th, 1916 : 
Lord Howe Island. 
Pterodroma neglecta neglecta Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Kermadec Islands (breeding), Lord Howe Island (breeding), Rapa Island, Austral. 
Group. Juan Fernandez. 
Adult (light form). General colour above brownish-ash ; crown of the head, occiput, nape, hind- 
neck, fore-head, lores, eyebrow, sides of the face, ear-coverts and cheeks, ash-brown, each 
feather white at the base ; scapulars, lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, lesser, median 
and greater wing-coverts dark brownish-ash, with the basal half of each feather white ; 
primary quills blackish-brown on the outer web, inner web white, becoming ash-brown 
towards the shafts and on the terminal third of each feather ; tail-feathers blackish-brown, 
white at the base : chin, throat and remainder of the under-surface light greyish-brown 
on the terminal half and white on the basal half ; under wing-coverts and axi Maries dark 
brownish-ash. Bill black, eyes very dark brown, feet black and dark grey Total length 
440 mm. : culmen 29, wing 295, tail 105, tarsus 29. Figured. Collected on Mount 
Gower, Lord Howe Island. 
Adult female (dark form). Crown of the head, occiput, nape, hind-neck and fore-head light ash- 
brown, fringed with whitish and with the basal two-thirds pure white ; sides of the face, 
ear-coverts, cheeks, chin and throat white ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, lesser, 
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