OEDER PROCELLARIIFORMES. 13 



* Daption capense (Linnaeus). Pintado Petrel. [102.] 



Procellaria capensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 132. (ad Cap. 

 b. Spei = Cape of Good Hope.) 



Range. — Throughout the southern oceans, ranging north to Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil; Payta, Peru; and to Ceylon. Breeds on South Orkney, South Shet- 

 land, South Georgia, Kerguelen, islands of Adelie Land, and probably others. 

 Accidental off the coasts of California (off Monterey)^ and Maine (Harpswell, 

 Casco Bay, June, 1873)- and in Europe. 



Family HYDROBATIDAE. Storm Petrels. 

 Subfamily HYDROBATINAE. Short-legged Storm Petrels. 



Genus OCEANODROMA Reichenbach. 



Oceanodroma Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1852 [1853], iv. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Procellaria furcata Gmelin. 



Subgenus OCEANODROMA. 



Oceanodroma furcata (Gmelin). Forked-tailed Petrel. [105.] 



Procellaria furcata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 561. Based on the 

 Forktail Petrel Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 535. (in glacie maris Ameri- 

 r-.am et Asiam interfluentis = among the ice between Asia and 

 America (Pennant) = Bering Sea.) 



Range. — North Pacific Ocean south to San Diego, California, and north 

 throughout Bering Sea on both coasts into Kotzebue Sound. Breeds from 

 the Kurile and Commander islands, along the Aleutian chain, and on islands 

 ofT the coast from southern Alaska to Washington and northern California. 



Subgenus CYMOCHOREA Coues. 



Cymochorea Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XVI] 1864, No. 2, 

 March-April [June 30], 75. Type, by orig. desig., Procellaria leucorhoa 

 Vieillot. 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa leucorhoa (Vieillot). Leach's Petrel. [106.] 



Procellaria leucorhoa Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., XXV, 

 1817, 422. (sur les bords maritimes de la Picardie, se tient sur I'Ocean, 

 jusqu'au Bresil = Picardy, France.) 



1 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VI, 1853, 6. 



2 Norton, Auk, XXXIX, 1922, 101; also Forbush, Birds of Mass. etc., I. 

 1925, 138. 



