. The birds of South Africa. Birds. PROCBLLAEIID^ MAJAQUEUS 475 or less rounded in front; hind toe small, claw sharp; plumage sooty-black. The species of this genus, two in number, are confined to the Southern Ocean. 790. Majaqueus sequinoctialis. Gape Hen. Procellaria iBquinootialis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 213 (1766); Grill, K. Vet. ATiod. Handl. ii, no. 10, p. 59 (1858); Laijard, Ibis, 1862, p. 97, 1863, p. 249, 1867, p. 459; id. B. 8. Afr. p. 860 (1867); Beichenow, Voff. Afr. i, p. 24 (1900) ; Vanhbfen, Journ. Ornith. 1901, p. 307. Procellaria conspioiUata, Gould, B. Austr. vii, pi. 46 (184
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. PROCBLLAEIID^ MAJAQUEUS 475 or less rounded in front; hind toe small, claw sharp; plumage sooty-black. The species of this genus, two in number, are confined to the Southern Ocean. 790. Majaqueus sequinoctialis. Gape Hen. Procellaria iBquinootialis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 213 (1766); Grill, K. Vet. ATiod. Handl. ii, no. 10, p. 59 (1858); Laijard, Ibis, 1862, p. 97, 1863, p. 249, 1867, p. 459; id. B. 8. Afr. p. 860 (1867); Beichenow, Voff. Afr. i, p. 24 (1900) ; Vanhbfen, Journ. Ornith. 1901, p. 307. Procellaria conspioiUata, Gould, B. Austr. vii, pi. 46 (1848). Majaqueus aequinoctialis, Swinburne, Proc. B. Phys. Soc. Edin. ix, p. 198 (1886); Sliarpc, cd. Layard a B. S. Afr. p. 766 (1884); Salvin, Cat. B. M. XXV, p. 395 (1896); Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 167 (1896) ; Slwrtrldge, Ibis, 1904, p. 203. " Black Haglet," " Black Night Hawk," " Stinkpot,'' and " Stinker," of Sealers and !BiG. 147.—Head of Majaqueus aqidnoctialis. x 5 Description. Adult.—General colour throughout sooty-black, slightly paler and browner below, in the middle of the back, and on the wing-coverts ; a patch of white on the chin reaching usually to below the eye ; basal halves of the shafts of the primaries white. Iris hazel; bill greenish-horn, the tip of the mandible, the membrane dividing the various portions of the sheath of the bill and the flat space on the culmen in front of the nostrils black; legs and feet black, sometimes with a pinkish or yellowish tinge on the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark, Arthur Cowell, d. 1899; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944. Fauna of South Africa. London, R. H. Porter
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