ORDER PROCELLARIIFORMES. 15 



Oceanodroma melania (Bonaparte). Black Petrel. [107.] 



Procellaria melania Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. (Paris), 

 XXXVIII, No. 14 (for April 3) , 1854, 662. (Coast of California = near 

 San Diego.) 



Range. — Pacific coast of America from off Marin County, California, to 

 southern Peru. Breeds on Los Coronados and the San Benito islands, and on 

 several islands in the Gulf of California. 



Oceanodroma homochroa (Coues). Ashy Petrel. [108.] 



Cymochorea homochroa Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XVI] 1864, 

 No. 2, March-April [June 30], 77. (Farallone Islands, Pacific coast of 

 North America = Farallon Islands, California.) 



Range. — Coasts of California and Lower Calfornia from Point Reyes to 

 the San Benito Islands. Breeds on the Farallon Islands, on San Miguel and 

 Santa Cruz in the Santa Barbara group, and on Los Coronados Islands. 



Oceanodroma socorroensis Townsend. Socorro Petrel. [108.1.] 



Oceanodroma socorroensis C. H. Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, 

 No. 799, Sept. 9, 1890, 134. (Socorro Island [Mexico].) 



Range. — Pacific coast of Mexico and southern California from the Santa 

 Barbara Channel to the Revillagigedo Islands. Breeds on the San Benito 

 group and on Los Coronados Islands. 



Genus HYDROBATES Boie. 



Hydrobates Boie, Isis von Oken, [X] 1822, Heft v (May), col. 562. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Procellaria pelagica Linnaeus (Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 



way, 1884). 



Hydrobates pelagicus (Linnaeus). Storm Petrel. [104.] 



Procellaria Pelagica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 131. (in albo 

 [ = alto] Oceano = Off the coast of Sweden.) 



Range. — Coasts of northern Europe, Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, 

 and Maine, south along the coast of Africa to Zanzibar. Breeds mainly on 

 islands in the northeastern Atlantic, including Iceland, Lofoten Island (Nor- 

 way), Shetland, Faroe, and Orkney islands, and others; also in the Mediter- 

 ranean to Malta and south to Madeira. Accidental in the interior of Europe 

 and off the coast of Greenland. 



