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Show 164 MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE SEA-BIRDS [Mar. 2, been obtained, but they are not noticed, nor are they known in Table Bav. tr 7. FREGETTA MELANOGASTRA (Gould). Thalassidroma melanogastra, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pl. 62. Nos. 86, 88, males. Oct. 15, lat. 36° 57' S., long. 40° 41' E. No. 91, female. Oct. 19, lat. 32° 36' S., long. 52° 58' E. 8. OCEANITES OCEANICUS (Kuhl). Wilson's Petrel. Thalassidroma wilsonii, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pl. 65. No. 64. Sept. 22, lat. 35° 29' S., long. 9° 46' E. No. 90. Oct. 19, lat. 32° 36', long. 52° 58' E. Female. Both these specimens have the vent and under tail-coverts black, and not white, as coloured in Gould's • Birds of Australia.' 9. ADAMASTOR CINEREUS (Gm.). "Whale-bird." Procellaria hast at a, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pl. 47. Nos. 60 (female), 61, 62. Sept. 21, lat. 35° 20' S., long. 9° 43'E. In one specimen the black and yellow colours of the bill are more strongly marked than in the other two. 10. MAJAQUEUS ^EQUINOCTIALIS (Linn.). Procellaria conspicillata, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pl. 46. No. 56. Sept. 19, lat. 34° 39' S., long. 8° 51' E. No. 93. Oct. 20, lat. 32° S. No. 97, male. Oct. 24, lat. 29° 45' S. The variations in these specimens are rather peculiar. In all the prevailing colour is sooty black ; but in the first there is a white patch of about i inch in length under lower mandible, and an irregular white streak on the left side, below the line of the gape, but none on the right side ; the second has rather more white on throat; and in the third, the white extends as far back as a line from the eyes. 11. (ESTRELATA MOLLIS (Gould). Procellaria mollis, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pl. 50. No. 41. Island of Trinidad, Aug. 21. " Knocked down with a stick on island." 12. (ESTRELATA PHILIPPI, G. R. Gray. No. 80. Oct. 10, lat. 37° 59' S., long. 29° 18' E. 13. DAPTION CAPENSIS (Linn.). " Cape Pigeon." Daption capensis, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pl. 53. Nos. 46, 46a, 48. Aug. 27 onwards, the first being observed on Aug. 26, in lat. 23° 30' S. ; temperature of air 65°, water 67°. "Sept. 19, many thousands of these and ' Ice-birds ' flying round ; they seemed to extend in undiminished numbers to the horizon." |