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Male: the whole of the plumage deep chocolate-black ; bill and feet jet-black.

This is one of the commonest species inhabiting the Atlantic, and no ship passes between our shores and ¢]

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Cape of Good Hope without encountering it; it 1s a species respecting which very considerable confusion exists in

the writings of nearly all the older authors. It is the P. Suliginosa of Forster’s Drawings, No. 93 B, and the P.

fuliginosa of Lichtenstein’s edition of Forster’s MSS. p. 23, which term cannot be retained, as it had already

been
applied by Latham to a very different bird from Otaheite ; it is the P. grisea of Kuhl but not of Linneus, who ee

civen the term to another species, consequently grisea cannot be retained for it ; and hence I have been induced to
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vive it a new appellation, and thereby prevent misapprehension for the future.

591. Procellaria macroptera, Smith.
Procellaria macroptera, Smith, Zool. of South Africa, Aves, pl. 52.

I think that a bird I killed in the seas off Van Diemen’s Land, where it was tolerably abundant, and which
differs from the last in being of a larger size, in having much longer wings and a greyer face, may be identical
with the P. macroptera of Smith, and I therefore retain it under that appellation, in preference to assigning it a
new name.

592. Procellaria Solandri, Gould.
Procellaria Solandri, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XII. p. 57; and in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,
vol. xi. p. 363.

Head, back of the neck, shoulders, primaries and tail dark brown ; back, wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts
slate-grey, each feather margined with dark brown ; face and all the under surface brown, washed with grey on the
abdomen ; bill, tarsi, toes and membranes black.

This is a remarkably robust and compact bird. I shot a single individual in Bass’s Straits on the 13th of
March 1839. M. Natterer thought that it might be identical with the bird figured in Banks’s drawings, to which
Dr. Solander has affixed the term melanopus, an opinion in which I cannot concur ; I have therefore named it in
honour of that celebrated botanist. The specimen above described may possibly not be fully adult, as the dark
colouring of the under surface only occupies the extreme tips of the feathers, the basal portions of which are

snow-white.

593. Procellaria Glacialoides, Smith : : : ; : : ; ; : : Vol. VII. Pl. 48.
594. Procellaria Lessonii, Garn.  . E ; ‘ é : : : : : Vol. VII. Pl. 49.
595. Procellaria mollis, Gould : : ; : : : : 3 ; Vol. VII. Pl. 50.
596. Procellaria Cookii, G. R. Gray : : : : : : : ; : i ; Wolk, W10L IM all,
597. Procellaria coerulea, Gmel.  . ; : i : ‘ : i : ; : Vol. VII. Pl. 52.

598. Procellaria flavirostris, Gould.

Procellaria flavirostris, Gould in Ann. and Macon Nat; Histssvoly xmspaoGo:

Feathers of the head and all the upper surface brown with pearl edges, fading into white on the tips of the
upper tail-coverts ; wings and tail deep blackish brown; all the under surface pure white; the feathers of the under
surface of the shoulder with a streak of brown down the centre ; bill yellow, passing into dark horn-colour at the
tip; tarsi and feet fleshy white.

This fine species was procured off the Cape of Good Hope, in lat. 36° 39'S., long. 10° 3’ E., by His Excellency
Governor Grey, on his passage to South Australia. It is distinguished from its congeners by its much larger size,
and by the yellow colouring of the bill. The female is somewhat smaller than her mate.

This bird so nearly approaches in form the members of the genus Pufinus, that it is almost questionable whether
it should not be included in that group.

599. Procellaria nivea, Gmel.

600. Procellaria Antarctica, Gmel.