WHITE-WINGED PETREL. 
“ Many of our specimens, especially the young birds, show on the head and 
neck the white filoplumes mentioned by Stejnege. Salvin (1891, p. 412) speaks 
of nestlings only a few days old, from Aneiteum, New Hebrides, as being 
‘ covered with black down.’ Our nestlings from Kandavu, are, as stated 
above, nearly full grown, and the long mesoptyle down is plumbeous-grey 
on the dorsal surface and whitish on the ventral surface. 
“ It is odd that the alleged type-locality of Peale’s Procellaria brevipes, 
which is near Peter Island in the eastern South Pacific, south of the Antarctic 
Circle, has never been questioned. Peale’s published remarks are as follows: 
‘ Two specimens were shot on the 21st day of March, in latitude 68° S., 
longitude 95° W.... The labels having been displaced after the specimens were 
sent home, the sex cannot be given with certainty now, but they are believed 
to be males.’ T in's comment, written some years after the reported capture 
of the specimens, is enough to throw some doubt on all of the data. The race 
is unquestionably equatorial in its normal distribution, even though a record 
made in the Antarctic may be no more remarkable than the one made in the 
British Isles.” 
The average measurements are as follows :— 
Wing. Tail. Culmen. Tarsus 
225 91 25.7 29.7 
218 95 24.3 26.5 
Middle-Toe 
and Claw. 
leucoptera 
brevipes 
37.3 
34 
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