Order PROCELLAIUI FORMES. 
Family PROCELLA RIIDM. 
No. 76. 
ATTAPRION DESOLATUS. 
(MATT INGLE YI.) 
DOVE PRION. 
(Plate 58.) 
Heteroprion desolatus mattincleyi Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. IT., pt. it., p. 226, July 31st, 
1912 : Torquay Beach, Geelong, Victoria. (Bill figured ib., p. 231.) 
Adult male. Grey-blue above, including the head, hind-neck, back, wings and tail; lesser wing- 
coverts and long scapulars blackish, as also the tips of the middle tail-feathers ; bastard¬ 
wing and primary-coverts black, the latter narrowly margined with white at the end ; the 
four outer primaries black inclining to white on the inner webs ; inner primaries and 
secondaries grey, with more or less white on the inner webs ; lores, cheeks, a line over the 
eye and under-surface pure white, including the axillaries and under wing-coverts. Total 
length 275 mm. : culmen 26, width of bill 12, wdng 189, tail 95, tarsus 32. Figured 
right-hand figure. Collected on Torquay Beach, Geelong, Victoria. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nestling. Covered with slaty-grey down. 
Nest. An enlargement at the end of a burrow about two feet long. 
Egg. One, white, 43-45 mm. by 33. 
Breeding-season. October, November and December. 
I have had a plate drawn of this and the following species, as the genus was 
not given a coloured plate in my Birds of Australia as quoted. 
The head given in the text will show the white markings. 
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