FOSSIL BIRDS. 407 



Order PROCELLARIIFORMES. Tube-nosed 

 Swimmers. 



Family PRO CELL ARII DAE. Shearwaters, Fulmars, and 



Petrels. 



Genus PUFFINUS Brisson.i 



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

 Puffinus Brisson = Procellaria puffinus Brunnich. 



Subgenus PUFFINUS Brisson. 



Puffinus griseus (Gmelin). Sooty Shearwater. 



Procellai-ia grisea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 564, 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Upper San Pedro, near San Pedro, 

 California. 



Puffinus puffinus (BRiJNNrcH). Manx Shearwater. 



Procellaria Puffinus BrDnnich, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 29. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Melbourne, Florida. 



Puffinus opisthomelas Coues, Black-vented Shearwater. 



Puffinus opisthomelas Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., [XVI], 1864, 

 No. 2, March-April [.June .30], 139. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Upper San Pedro, San Pedro, 

 California. 



Puffinus inceptor Wetmore. 



Puffinus inceptor Wetmore, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, XIX, No. 8, 

 July 15, 1930, 86, figs. 1-3. 



Miocene (Temblor) : Sharkt-ooth Hill, about seven miles northeast of Bakers- 

 field, California. 



Puffinus diatomicus Miller. 



Puffinus diatomicus L. H. Miller, Carnegie Inst. Wash., Publ. 349, Aug., 

 i925. 111, pis. 1, 2, 7a. 



Miocene (Temblor, Turritclla ocoyana Zone): Lompoc, California. 



1 Puffinus parvus Shufeldt, Ibis, Oct., 1916, 632, fron\ Recent deposits in 

 the bone caves of Bermuda is considered a synonym of Puffinus Iherminieri. 

 Puffinus mcgalli Shufeldt, Ibis, Oct., 1916, 630, from Recent deposits in 

 the bone caves of Bermuda is seemingly Puffinus puffinus. 



