Order PROCELLARIIFORMES. 
No. 52. 
Family PROOELLARHDM. 
PTERODROMA BREVIROSTRIS. 
KERGUELEN FULMAR. 
(Plate 38.) 
Procellaria brevirostris Lesson, Traits d’Om., 8th livr., p. 611, June 11th, 1831. No locality. 
=Kerguelen Island. 
Procellaria brevirostris Lesson, Traits d’Orn., 8th livr., p. 611, June 11th, 1831. 
(Estrelata kidderi Coues, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 2, p. 28, Nov. 1875 : Kerguelen Island. 
Procellaria unicolor Coues, ib., as synonym of kidderi Coues, ex Gould. 
(Estrelata brevirostris Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 409, 1896, pref. Dec. 16th, 
1895 ; Sharpe, Rep. Coll. Nat. Hist. “ Southern Cross,” Aves., p. 148, 1902 ; Godman, 
Monogr. Petrels, p. 216, pi. 60, Sept. 1908. 
Pterodroma brevirostris Sclater, Syst. Av. Ethiop., p. 12, 1924; A. J. Campbell, Emu, Vol. 
XXVI., p. 136, Oct. 1926 ; id., ib., p. 153, pi. 24, Jan. 1927 ; Mathews, Syst. Av. Australas., 
p. lx., June 13th, 1927. 
Distribution. South Indian and Atlantic Oceans, Kerguelen (breeding) and Tristan da Cunha. 
Accidental to West Australia. 
Adult male. Fore-head, top and back of the head dark slate-grey, each feather with an indistinct 
blackish shaft-streak, all the bases of the feathers being greyish-white, remainder of the 
upper-surface slate-grey with indistinct blackish shaft-streaks ; tail-feathers a little lighter 
than the back ; upper and under tail-coverts freckled with white ; primaries and secondaries 
similar in colour to the back, wing-coverts similar but slightly margined with lighter 
grey, whole of the under-surface a little lighter tone of grey than the upper-parts ; bill 
dark horn; eyes dark brown ; feet and webs black. Total length 370 mm.: exposed 
culmen 26, wing 240, tail 94, tarsus 34. Figured. Collected at Greenland Harbour, 
Kerguelen Island, on the 25th of January, 1898. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nestling. Covered with sooty-brown down. 
Nest. Composed of vegetable matter and placed at the end of a burrow. 
Eggs. Clutch one: white, 50 by 38 mm. 
Breeding-season. October, November and December. 
This species was added to the Australian List by Mr. A. J. Campbell. The 
bird was washed up dead on Cottesloe beach, Western Australia, on June 
6th, 1926, after a storm. 
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