. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . n collections through the late Manly Hardyand his family. I have recently examined 18 of these birds, now inthe Thayer Museum, and should judge from copies of correspondence,shown to me by Colonel Thayer, that Mr. Brewster pronouncedthem, Avhile still in the Hardy collection, as identical with his type ofPterodroma scalaris; and that since then Doctor Oberholser has com-pared them with Peales type of Pterodroma gularis and pronouncedthem identical with that species. These are sign
. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes . n collections through the late Manly Hardyand his family. I have recently examined 18 of these birds, now inthe Thayer Museum, and should judge from copies of correspondence,shown to me by Colonel Thayer, that Mr. Brewster pronouncedthem, Avhile still in the Hardy collection, as identical with his type ofPterodroma scalaris; and that since then Doctor Oberholser has com-pared them with Peales type of Pterodroma gularis and pronouncedthem identical with that species. These are significant facts and,when taken in connection with the fact that Godman (1907) evidentlyregarded Mr. Seymours birds as gularis., tend to prove that the twospecies are identical. There is considerable individual variation inthis series of birds of Avhich Mr. Brewsters type of scalaris representsone extreme and Peales type of gula,ris another. Eggs.—There are also in the Thayer collection three eggs, col-lected by Mr, Seymour, on Preservation Inlet, on December 12, 1899, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 121 PL. 20.
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