Cook's Petrel

SCI Name:  Pterodroma cookii
Protonym:  Procellaria Cookii Trav.N.Z.[Dieffenbach] 2 p.199
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Procellariidae / Pterodroma
Taxonomy Code:  coopet
Type Locality:  New Zealand.
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

PTERODROMA
(Procellariidae; Ϯ Great-winged Petrel P. macroptera) Gr. πτερον pteron  wing; -δρομος -dromos  -racer, -runner  < τρεχω trekhō  to run; the gadfly petrels were so named with reference to their fast weaving flight, as if pursued by horseflies; "1. FULMAREÆ.  ...  *4. Pterodroma, Bp.   14. fuliginosa, Banks. (grisea, Kuhl nec Gm.  lugens? Soland.  atlantica, Gould.)   15. macroptera, Smith.  (brevirostris, Less.)   16. aterrima, Verr.  (carbonaria? Solander.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Pterodroma, Bp. (Thalassoica? p. Gr. - Procellaria, p. Hombr. et Jacq. - Ossifraga, p. Reich.) Rostrum brevissimum, curvum, valde compressum: cauda cuneata. Nigrae.  Cum genere BULWERIA Procellariearum analogiam praebent. Parvulae inter congeneres conveniunt quippe statura cum gigantibus illis propriae sectionis.    M. ant. pr. Afr.  3.    1. PROCELLARIA macroptera, Smith.   ...   2. PROCELLARIA FULIGINOSA, Banks, nec Lath.   ...   *3. PROCELLARIA aterrima, Verr." (Bonaparte 1857); "Pterodroma Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 768. Type, by subsequent designation, Procellaria macroptera A. Smith (Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 137)." (Peters 1931, I, 60).
Var. Petrodroma, Pterodrome. 
Synon. Aestrelata, Cookilaria, Hallstroma, Oestrelatella, Proaestrelata, Rhantistes.

cooki / cookii
● John Pemberton Cook (1865-1924) British tea planter in India, forestry officer in Burma, coffee-estate owner in Kenya, big-game hunter, field-ornithologist (Apus, syn. Laniarius ruficeps rufinuchalis, Prinia).
● Capt. James Cook (1728-1779) Royal Navy, hydrographer, explorer and circumnavigator 1768-1771, 1772-1775, 1776-1779 (syn. Calyptorhynchus lathami, subsp. Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae, Pterodroma, syn. Pterodroma leucoptera).
● Capt. Samuel Edward Cook (1787-1856) British geologist, naturalist, collector (Cyanopica).