Order PROCELLARIIFORMES. 
No. 5. 
Family THALASSIDROMIDJE. 
FREGETTA TUBULATA. 
ALLIED STORM-PETREL. 
(Plates 5 and 10.) 
Fregetta Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci., Paris, Vol. XLI., p. 1113, Dec. 31st, 1855. 
Type (by original designation) : Thalassidroma leucogaster Gould. 
Fregetta tubulata Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pt. 1, p. 42, May 30th, 1912 : “ Near the 
coasts of Australia.” 
Fregetta tubulata Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 42, May 30th, 1912 (ex Gould MS.); Mathews 
and Iredale, Man. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 20, March 9th, 1921 ; Kinghorn and Cayley, 
Emu, Vol. XXII., pp. 81—96, Oct. 1922 ; Mathews, ib., Vol. XXIII., pp. 51-56, July 1923 ; 
id., Syst. Av. Australas., p. 109, June 13th, 1927. 
Distribution. “ Near the coasts of Australia.” 
Adult (type of species). General colour above blackish-brown, darker on the head ; the feathers 
of the back, scapulars, lower-back and rump narrowly margined with white ; the longer 
upper tail-coverts pure white, the shorter upper tail-coverts brownish-black, w r hite at the 
base and narrowly tipped with white ; lesser wing-coverts blackish-brown ; median and 
greater coverts ash-brown ; primary-coverts blackish-brown ; primary-quills blackish 
with a slight gloss and brownish-black towards the margins of the inner webs ; the middle 
pair of tail-feathers black, the remainder black, with white bases ; crown of head, occiput, 
nape, hind-neck and fore-head sooty-black ; chin and throat smoky-black, white at the 
bases of the feathers ; sides of neck, fore-neck and upper chest smoky-black, with the bases 
of the feathers white ; breast, sides of the body and the abdomen white, broadly tipped 
with smoky-black ; under tail-coverts blackish-brown with the basal half white ; lesser 
wing-coverts smoky-brown ; median under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills 
below brownish-ash with the shafts of the primaries horn-colour. Total length about 
205 mm. : culmen 14, wing 150, tail 74, tarsus 36, middle toe with claw 25. Figured. 
Collected “ Near the coasts of Australia.” 
Nothing is known of this bird, except that Gould said he obtained it near 
the coast of Australia. 
GENUS—CYMODROMA VIEILLOT. 
Key to the Species. 
All black 
Under-surface white 
Inside lining of wings white 
White edgings of most of the feathers 
on the upper-surface at all stages 
No white edgings to any of the feathers 
on the upper-surface at any stage 
Inside lining of wings greyish-brown 
Gymodroma royana. 
C. grallaria innominata. 
C. insularis. 
C. alisteri. 
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