Order PROCELLARIIFORMES. 
No. 50. 
Family PROCELL ARUBA,. 
CALONECTRIS LEUCOMELAS. 
WHITE-FRONTED SHEARWATER. 
(Plate 36.) 
Calonectris Mathews and Iredale, Ibis, July 2nd, 1915, pp. 590-592. Type (by original 
designation) : Puffinus leucomelas Temm. 
Procellaria leucomelas Temminclc et Laugier, Planch. Color d’Ois., Yol. V., livr. xcix., pi. 587, 
1835 : Seas of Japan. 
Puffinus leucomelas Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japponica, Aves, p. 131, pi. 85, 1850; 
Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 370, 1896, pref. Dec. 16th; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austr., p. 16, Jan. 1908 ; Godinan, Monograph Petrels, p. 72, pi. 21, March 1908. 
Calonectris leucomelas Mathews and Iredale, Manual Birds Austr., p. 24, March 9th, 1921; 
Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., p. 112, June 13th, 1927. 
Distribution. Japan to Celebes, Moluccas and New Guinea [Australia ?]. 
Adult male. Mantle, back and scapulars brown, with pale edges and white bases to the feathers; 
wing-coverts blackish-brown, greater coverts and secondary-quills margined with white 
on the outer webs towards the tips; bastard wing, primary-coverts and quills blackish, 
the latter white on the inner webs at the base ; upper tail-coverts ash-brown edged with 
white ; tail-feathers dark brown ; crown of head slate-brown with numerous white feathers 
intermixed; hind-neck darker and inclining to sooty-brown; fore-head, side of face 
and sides of throat brown, with white margins to the feathers, imparting a streaked 
appearance ; throat and under-surface of the body, including the axillaries and under 
tail-coverts, white ; under wing-coverts white, with dark shaft-streaks, some of the outer 
greater coverts ash-grey fringed with white ; bill horn-colour ; feet flesh-colour, the outer 
toe a little darker (in the dried skin). Total length 465 mm.: culmen 53, wing 307, tail 
146, tarsus 50. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nest and eggs not described. 
This bird has been included in the Australian List, but the record is too 
doubtful at present. I have had a coloured plate done in order that it may 
help observers, should the bird be collected. 
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