Order PROCELLARIIFORMES. 
Family PROC ELLA RUB JE. 
No. 109. 
PTERODROMA ALBA * 
SMALL-BILLED PETREL. 
(Plate 80.) 
“ White-bbeasted Petbel ” Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds, Vol. III., pt. n., p. 400, 1785. Turtle 
and Christmas Islands. Restricted type locality Christmas Island. 
Procellaria alba Gmelin, Syst. Nat., pt. n., p. 565, April 20th, 1789, for Latham’s bird. Loomis 
Auk., Vol. 37, pt. i., p. 88, Jan., 1920. 
Procellaria variegata Bonnaterre, Tab. Encyclop. M6th., Vol. I., p. 78, 1791. Named Latham’s 
bird, also restricted to Christmas Island. 
(Estrelata parvirostris f (not Peale) Lister, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1891, p. 295 (August 1st). 
Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit, Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 405, 1896 (pref. Dec. 16th, 1895). 
Godman Monogr. Petrels, pt. in., p. 193, pi. 52, Sept,, 1908. 
(Estrelata wortheni Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XII., p. 62, April 28th, 1902. 3°S., 
118° 45' W. (not far from the Galapagos Islands). Collected by Rollo H. Beck, on January 
2nd, 1901. 
Estrelata oliveri Mathews and Iredale, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., No. 5, p. 113, Sept. 24th, 1914. 
Kermadec Islands. Collected by K. Bell on Sunday Island, on March 7th, 1913. 
Pterodroma parvirostris (not Peale) Loomis, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. II., pt. n., p. 104, 
April 22nd, 1918. Murphy, American Mus. Novit., No. 322, p. 2, July 14tli, 1920. 
Oliver, New Zeal. Birds, p. 142, Aug., 1930. 
Pterodroma oliveri Mathews, Syst. Av. Austral., Vol. I., p. 119, June 13th, 1927. 
Pterodrovna wortheni Mathews, Ibis, July, 1931, p. 587. 
Coloured figure (Estrelata parvirostris Godman, Monogr., pi. 52, pt. m., Sept. 1908. 
In the “ Birds of Australia,” Vol. II., pt. n, p. 149, July 31st, 1912, I discussed 
Procellaria alba Gmelin. 
“ White-breasted Petrel ” Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds, Vol. III., pt. n., p. 400, 
1785. Turtle and Christmas Islands. Restricted type locality Christmas 
Island. 
Procellaria alba Gmelin, Syst. Nat., pt. n., p. 565, April 20th, 1789. New 
name for the above. 
*The plate is lettered P. Oliveri. 
t Procellaria parvirostris Peale, U.S. Explor. Exped. Birds, Vol. VIII., p. 289, Oct., 1848. Honden Island 
(Pauraotu) or Tuamotu or Dangerous Archipelago. (Caught on August 20th); Cassin, ib. 2nd edn. p. 411, 
1858, and pi. 40, cf. Ibis, 1931 July, 1931 July, pp. 586-7. 
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