Species Pterodroma (Pterodroma) lessonii (Garnot, 1826)

CAVS: 0077

White-headed Petrel, White-headed Fulmar

Procellaria lessonii Garnot, P. 1826. Remarques sur la zoologie des iles Malouines, faites pendant le voyage autour du Monde par la corvettela Coquille exécuté en 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 7: 39-59 [54, pl. 4].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP C.G: 1995-267 Skin, Oceane Pacifique = southern Indian Ocean.
Type locality references:
Murphy, R.C.& Pennoyer, J.M. 1952. Larger petrels of the genus Pterodroma. American Museum Novitates 1580: 1-43 [17]; Voisin, J.-F., Mougin, J.-L. & Jouanain, C. 1997. Liste des types d'Oiseaux des collections du Muséum National d'Historie naturelle (France). 5. Procellariiformes (avec une note sur les catalogues du laboratoire des Mammifères et Oiseaux. Zoosystema 19(4): 757-788 [760].
Procellaria leucocephala Forster, J.R. 1844. Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annon 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto collegit, observavit et delineavit Ioannes Reinoldus Forster. Nunc demun editae... Heinrico Lichtenstein. Berolini. [206].
Type data:
Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Australian seas.
Aestrelata lessonii australis Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [54].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH AMNH 527985 Skin, Bondi Beach, New South Wales [33°53'S, 151°17'E].
Type locality references:
Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [228].
Procellaria vagabunda Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [155] [ex Solander MS, nomen nudum].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds on sub-Antarctic islands including Macquarie Island, observed off southern Australia over continental shelf and beyond, vagrant to southern QLD

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Macquarie Island Province (24), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)