Order PROGELLARIIFORMES. 
Family PROCELLARIIBM. 
No. 116. 
CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA. 
(borealis.) 
MEDITERRANEAN GREAT SHEARWATER. 
(Plate 83.) 
Procellaria diomedea Scopoli, Annus I., Hist. Nat., p. 74, 1769. No locality ; designated locality 
Mediterranean Sea. 
Puffinus kuhlii Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 375, 1896 ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, 
pt. n., p. 94, pi. 26, March, 1908 ; Oliver, Emu, Vol. XXXIV., pt. I., p. 23, July 2nd, 1934. 
Puffinus borealis Cory, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, Vol. VI., No. 2, p. 84, April, 1881. Off Chatham 
Island, Mass., U.S.A. Considered as this subspecies by Oliver as above. 
Galonectris kuhli and its subspecies, Murphy, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. L., Art. m., 
pp. 241-251, July 3rd, 1924. 
Ardenna kulilii and its subspecies, Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XXXIX., p. 177, Dec. 7th, 1934. 
Distribution. Atlantic Ocean, accidental to New Zealand. 
Adult. Head dark brown ; hind-neck lighter, back dark brown, each feather with a light edge, 
some of the feathers on the back with whitish borders ; the extreme feathers of the upper 
tail-coverts with mottled whitish tips ; tail feather black ; some of them with white tips ; 
primaries, secondaries and scapulars blackish with the inner web lighter and white towards 
the base ; primary coverts black ; secondary coverts grey ; remainder of wing-coverts 
dark sooty brown ; fore-head, lores and sides of the neck dappled, the line of 
demarcation between the back of the neck and sides of the neck not well defined ; upper 
and under eyelid white ; throat and under neck white ; on the upper breast is a broken 
band of grey feathers with white bars, this broken band forms a patch on the sides of the 
breast ; remainder of under-surface white, including the under wing linings, axillaries 
and under tail-coverts, some of the side feathers of the under tail-coverts white with brown 
bars ; under aspect of primaries grey ; the feathers round the bend of the under wing 
brown with white edges ; bill horn yellow ; legs and feet pale flesh colour with the outer 
toe and side of the tarsus darker ; eyes brown. 
Nest. Placed at the end of a burrow, or in caves. 
Eggs. Clutch one : uniformly clear white ; texture fine. They measure 46 by 69 and 41 by 61; 
44 by 57, the average being 44.4 by 63.3. 
Breeding season. July (Brava). 
This species was added to the New Zealand list by Oliver in the Emu, Vol. 34, 
pt. i., p. 23, July 2nd, 1934, a specimen was picked up in January, 1934, by 
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