order procellartiformes. 7 



Family PROCELLARIIDAE. Shearwaters, Fulmars, 

 AND Petrels. 



Genus PUFFINUS Brisson. 



Puffinus Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 56; VI, 130. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Puffinus Brisson = Procellaria puffinus Brunnich. 



Subgenus PUFFINUS Brisson. 



Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck). Slender-billed Shearwater. [96.] 



Procellaria temdrostris Temminck, Planches Col., V, 1835, text to pi. 587. 

 (On le trouve dans les mers au nord du Japon et sur les cotes de la 

 Coree = Japan.) 



Range. — Southern oceans north in the Pacific to Okhotsk and Bering seas 

 and eastward, mainly on southward migration, to the coast of North America 

 from Sitka to southern California. Breeds in Australian seas, mainly on is- 

 lands in Bass Strait and vicinity, Lord Howe Island, and New Zealand. 



Puffinus griseus (Gmelin). Sooty Shearwater. [95.] 



Procellaria grisea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 564. Based on the 

 Grey Petrel Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. ii, 399. (in hemisphaerio 

 australi inter 35° et 50° = New Zealand.) 



Range. — Widely distributed over the great oceans; north to Labrador, 

 Greenland, Faroe and Orkney islands on the Atlantic coasts and to the 

 Aleutian and Kurile islands on the Pacific. Breeds on New Zealand and ad- 

 jacent islands — ^Norfolk, Stewart, Kapiti, Snares, St. Stephens, Auckland, 

 and Chatham, and islands near Cape Horn.^ 



• Puffinus puffinus puffinus (BRtJNNicn). Manx Shearwater. [90.] 



Procellaria Puffinus Brxjnnich, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 29. (E Feroa & 

 Norvegia = Faroe Islands.) 



Range. — Northeastern Atlantic Ocean from the coasts of Norway and 

 Great Britain to the Canary Islands, and perhaps regularly to South America. 

 Breeds on Iceland, the coasts of Wales and Ireland, the Shetland, Orkney, and 

 Scilly islands, Hebrides, Azores, Salvages, Madeira, and casually Bermuda 

 (formerly on Isle of Man). Accidental on the coast of Greenland,^ New York 

 (Long Island, August 30, 1917),^ and Maine (or New Brunswick).'' [Addi- 

 tional races occur off Great Britain and in the Mediterranean.] 



1 This species is divided by some authorities, the American Atlantic coast 

 race being P. g. stricklandi Ridgway (Water Birds N. Amer., II, 1884, 390) and 

 the Pacific form P. g. chilensis Bonaparte (Consp. Avium, II, 1857, 202). 



2 Reinhardt, Tidsskrift for Natiu-videnskab., Ill, 1824, 52. 



3 Bent, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 121, 1922, 74. 

 ' Brooks, Auk, XXXIV, 1917, 206. 



