Of the fifteen species I have placed in this genus as now restricted, figures of only eight have been given.
| 586. Procellaria gigantea | Vol. VII. Pl. 45. |
| 587. Procellaria Æquinoctialis. | |
| 588. Procellaria conspicillata, Gould | Vol. VII. Pl. 46. |
| 589. Procellaria hasitata, Kuhl. | Vol. VII. Pl. 47. |
| 590. Procellaria Atlantica, Gould. |
- Procellaria Atlantica, Gould in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. xiii. p. 362.
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 the Cape of Good Hope without encountering it; it is a species respecting which very considerable confusion exists in the writings of nearly all the older authors. It is the P. fuliginosa 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 Linnæus, who has given the term to another species, consequently grisea cannot be retained for it; and hence I have been induced to give 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. xiii. p. 363.