ORDER TUBINARES. IO5 



HAB. North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans ; south on the 

 coast of the United States to Virginia and California ; breeds from 

 Maine and the Hebrides northward on the coasts of the Atlantic. 



107. Oceanodroma melania (BONAP.). 



Black Petrel. 



Procellaria melania BONAP. Compt. Rend. XXVIII. 1854, 662. 

 Oceanodroma melania STEJN. Orn. Expl. Kamtsch. 1885, 371. 



[B , C 589, R 724, C 824.] 

 HAB. South Pacific, northward to Lower California. 



108. Oceanodroma homochroa (COUES). 



Ashy Petrel. 



Cymochorea homochroa COUES, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 77. 

 Oceanodroma homochroa RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 356. 



[B 643, C 590, R 725,0 825.] 

 HAB. Coast of California. 



SUBFAMILY OCEANITIN^E. 



GENUS OCEANITES KEYSERLING & BLASIUS. 



Oceanites KEYS. & BLAS. Wirb. Eur. I. 1840, xciii. Type, Procel- 

 laria oceanica KUHL. 



109. Oceanites oceanicus (KUHL). 



Wilson's Petrel. 



Procellaria oceanica KUHL, Beitr. Zool. Mon. Proc. 1820, 136, pi. 10, 



fig. i. 

 Oceanites oceanica LIGHT. Nomencl. Mus. Berol. 1854, 99. 



[B 644, C 593, R 722, C 828.] 

 HAB. North and South Atlantic and Southern Oceans. 



GENUS CYMODROMA RIDGWAY. 



Cymodroma RIDGW. Water B. N. Am. II. 1884, 4iS. Type, Procel- 

 laria grallaria VIEILL. 



