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Procellaria gigantea, GMEL. perspicillata, GOULD. hasitata, FORST. leucocephala. Solandri, GOULD. Daption Capensis, STEPH. Prion vittata, CUV. Banksii. Turtur. Ariel, GOULD. Puffinus brevicaudus, GOULD. Puffinuria urinatrix, LESS. Thalassidroma Wilsoni. nereis, GOULD. melanogaster, GOULD.
The most widely dispersed were Daption capensis the pintado or Cape-pigeon of voyagers Procellaria hasitata, P. coerulea, P. lessonii, and P. gigantea, of which the first and second were the most numerous and readily took a bait towing astern. It is probable that all these species make the circuit of the globe, as they are equally distributed over the South Indian Ocean.
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