8 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Puffinus opisthomelas Coues. Black-vented Shearwater. [93.] 



Puffinus opisthomelas Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XVI] 1864, No. 

 2, March- April [June 30], 139. (Cape St. Lucas, Lower California.) 



Range. — Off the coast of California, except in the breeding season, ranging 

 north more rarely to Washington and British Columbia. Breeds on San 

 Benito, Natividad, and Guadalupe islands, off the west coast of Lower Cali- 

 fornia and Mexico. 



PuflBnus auricularis Townsend. Townsend's Shearwater. [93.1.] 



Puffinus auricularis C. H. Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, No. 

 799, Sept. 9, 1890, 133. (Clarion Island [Mexico].) 



Range. — West coast of Mexico from Cape San Lucas south to Clipperton 

 Island. Breeds on Clarion and San Benedicto islands, Revillagigedo group. 



Puffinus Iherminieri Iherminieri Lesson. Audubon's Shearwater. [92.] 



Puffinus [sic] Lherminieri Lesson, Revue Zool., II, [No. 3] April [May], 

 1839, 102. (ad ripas Antillarum = Straits of Florida.) 



Range. — Warmer parts of the western North Atlantic, more or less regulaily 

 to Cuba, Gulf of Mexico, and casually to the coasts of Florida, South Carolina, 

 Virginia, and New Jersey; accidental at Bellport, N. Y. Breeds on Bermuda, 

 the Bahamas, Little Saba Island (near St. Thomas), and the Lesser Antilles. 

 [Closely related races occur on the Cape Verde Islands, the Galapagos, and 

 in Polynesia.] 



• Puffinus assimilis barolii Bonaparte. Allied Shearwater. [92.1.] 



Puffinusbaroli "Bonelli," Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, sig. 23, Feb. 1, 

 1856 [Oct. 1, 1857], 204. (ex mediterraneo = Desertas Islands, Canaries.) 



Range. — -North Atlantic Ocean mainly on the eastern side ranging south 

 probably to the Equator. Breeds on the Azores, Canary Islands, and the 

 Madeira group. Accidental in Nova Scotia (Sable Island, September 1, 1896) ' 

 and South Carolina (Sullivan's Island, August, 1883).- [Numerous allied 

 races are found in the southern oceans.] 



Subgenus ARDENNA Reichenb.^^ch. 



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

 monotypy, Procellaria major Faber = P. gravis O'Reilly. 



1 Dwight, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, 1897, 69. 



2 Peters, Auk, XLI, 1924, 337. 



