PROCELLARIA TURTUR.—F orst.
A ves.— P late LIV.—F emale.
P. cinereo-cEerulesceris; subtus alba; regione ante; oculos, superciliis, palpebristpie inferioribus albis;
alarum tectricibus minoribus, scapularium apicibus, remigium tectricibus primariis, remigium
quatuor pogoniis extemis, caudseque apice sordido-brunneo-rubris; caudzt versus basin cinerea. Rostro
nigro-viride, manditoula superiore ad apicem flavo-brunned, inferiore livido-alM. Pedibus brunneo-
rubris. Oculis nigro-brunneis.
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad basin caudse 6 unc. 9 lin. ; caudse 4 unc.
C olour';—The upper surface of the head dull pearl-grey, the feathers towards
their points tinged with light brownish red, which is also the colour of
their shafts. The back .and sides of neck, the interscapulars, back, rump,
upper tail coverts, scapulars, and the half collar on breast in front of wings
between clear blueish and pearl-grey. Spaces in front of eyes, eyebrows,
a stripe behind each eye, and the under parts of the neck and body clear
white; the flanks and under tail-coverts pale lilac-purple. The lesser wing
coverts, the scapulars towards their points, the primary quill feathers, the
outer vanes of the four external quill feather, with their tips, and about the
last third of the eight middle feathers brownish red, deadened with grey;
the colour of the lesser wing coverts and scapulars of the two sides forms a dark
bar somewhat in the shape of the letter V upon the back when the wings are
folded. The secondary quill coverts, the primary quill feathers, save those
already described, the whole of the outermost feather on each side of the tail,
nearly all the secondhand the first two-thirds of the rest dark ash-grey; the
inner vanes of the four external quill feathers dull pearl grey, fading toward
the inner edges into white, which is also the colour of the edges of the inner
vanes of the other quill feathers. Behind each eye a narrow longitudinal
stripe of lilac-purple, and the feathers immediately under the lower eyelid,
which is white, and those in front of the eye are of the same colour, only a
shade lighter. The upper mandible towards the base livid blackish green,
the hooked portion, and the edge of the mandible dull yellowish brown ; the
tip of the lower mandible dull livid white, elsewhere coloured as the upper