10 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — ^Atlantic Ocean, south to at least lat. 36° S., west to the coasts 

 of Brazil (Bahia) and North America (Newfoundland to North Carolina). 

 Breeds in the Azores, Madeira, Salvage and Canary islands. 



[Additional races of P. diomedea occur on the eastern Atlantic islands and 

 the Kerguelen group.] 



Genus THYELLODROMA Stejneger. 



Thyellodroma Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, 93 (note) [Nov. 

 8]. Type, by orig. desig., P uffinus sphenurus Gould = P. chlororhynchus 

 Lesson. 



• Thyellodroma cuneata (Salvin). Wedge-tailed Shearwater. [96.1.] 



Puffinus cuneatus Salvin, Ibis, ser. 5, V, No. 3, July, 1888, 353. (insulis 

 Krusenstern = probably one of the Marshall Islands but possibly 

 south of Laysan.) 



Range. — Warmer parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Breeds on the 

 Seychelle and Mascarene islands. Lord Howe, Norfolk, Kermadec, etc., 

 Bonin, Volcano, Marshall, Marcus, Laysan and others of the Leeward Hawaiian 

 Islands, Johnston and Wake islands, and San Benedicto Island in the 

 Revillagigedo group. Occasional at Cape San Lucas, Lower California (April 

 23 and June 5, 1897). ^ 



Thyellodroma buUeri (Salvin). New Zealand Shearwater. [96.2.] 



Puffinus bulleri Salvin, Ibis, ser. 5, V, No. 3, July, 1888, 354. (New 

 Zealand.) 



Range. — New Zealand seas east and north over the Pacific to the coast of 

 Chile and in small numbers, in autumn, off the coast of California (Pt. Pinos) ^ 

 and British Columbia.^ Breeds on Mokohinu Island, New Zealand. 



Genus ADAMASTOR Bonaparte. 



Adamastor Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. (Paris), XLIII, No. 

 11 (for Sept. 15), 1856, 594. Type, by orig. desig., Procellaria hsesitata 

 FoRSTER = Procellaria cinerea Gmelin. 



• Adamastor cinereus (Gmelin). Black-tailed Shearwater. [97.] 



Procellaria cinerea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 563. Based on the 

 Cinereous Fulmar Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. ii, 405. (intra 

 circulum Antarcticum = lat. 48° Antarctic seas.) 



1 Anthony, Auk, XV, 1898, 39. 



^Loomis, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, II, 1900, 319; ser. 4, II, Pt. 2, 1918, 

 146 etc. (sixteen records). 

 3 Nichols, Auk, XLIV, 1927, 326. 



