. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds -- Japan. PROCELLARIID/E. 271 The Black Petrel is only known from the type in the Paris Museum, which was collected by Mons. Delattre during his voyage from Nicaragua to California; and an example in the collection of Canon Tristram, which was obtained twenty years afterwards by Lieut. Gunn during July in Sendai Bay on the east coast of Hondo. I have carefully compared the two examples and have no doubt that they belong to the same species. 267. PROCELLARIA FURCATA. (GREY FORK-TAILED PETREL.) Trocdlaria furcata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 5G1 (1788). The
. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds -- Japan. PROCELLARIID/E. 271 The Black Petrel is only known from the type in the Paris Museum, which was collected by Mons. Delattre during his voyage from Nicaragua to California; and an example in the collection of Canon Tristram, which was obtained twenty years afterwards by Lieut. Gunn during July in Sendai Bay on the east coast of Hondo. I have carefully compared the two examples and have no doubt that they belong to the same species. 267. PROCELLARIA FURCATA. (GREY FORK-TAILED PETREL.) Trocdlaria furcata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 5G1 (1788). The Grey Fork-tailed Petrel is slightly larger than Leach's Petrel (wing from carpal joint about 6^ inches). It is pale slate-grey, shading into white on the under tail-coverts and the tips of the scapulars and tertials, and into dark brown on the axillaries, under wing-coverts, lesser wing-coverts, and ear-coverts. I'igures : Cassin, Birds of California &c. pi. 47; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. ii. p. 413 (woodcut of head, foot, and tail).. Head of Procellaria furcata. Natural size. The Grey Fork-tailed Petrel was recorded from the Kurile Islands from examples obtained by Mons. Merck (Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 315); and it has recently been found breeding on Rashua, one of the central islands of the chain, by Mr. Snow (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 218). There are three examples in the Pryer collection obtained by Mr. Snow from this locality in June (Scebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 33).. 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 Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, R. H. Porter
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