COLLARED PETREL.
(ESTRELATA BREVIPES (Peak).
Procellaria brevipes, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. viii. pp. 294,
337, pi. kxx.
(Estrelata brevipes, Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 408.
Procellaria torquata, J. Macgillivray, Zool. xviii. p. 7133.
(Estrelata torquata, Harting, Zool. 1890, p. 454; Salvin,
Ibis, 1891, p. 411, pi. ix.
One occurrence. At the end of November or the
beginning of December, 1889, a bird of this species was
shot between Borth and Aberystwith, and an account of
its capture was furnished by Mr. J. Willis Bund to
Mr. Harting, who published it in the ' Zoologist.' The
species is there and elsewhere called by J. Macgillivray's
name (2?. torquata, but from a comparison of types there
is no doubt that it is the same as the bird first described
by Titian Peale as (E. brevipes. Peale obtained his
specimens in lat. 60° S. in the Pacific Ocean, when he
accompanied the United States exploring expedition
under Commodore Wilkes. Macgillivray found his bird
on one of the New Hebrides Islands, where they were
breeding. It has also been obtained on the Fiji Islands.
[O. S.]