NO. 1116. 



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Specific characters. — Similar to P. auduhoni, Fiuscli,' but decidedly 

 smaller and with under wing-coverts conspicuously clouded with 

 brownish gray; under tail-coverts darker. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago: ? Charles Island (Markbam); Dal- 

 rymple Rock, Chatham Island (Townsend); Kicker Rock and -Tervis 

 Island (Baur and Adams); Weuman Island (Townsend). 



ASCERTAINEP RANGE OF THE GENUS PUFFIN18, BKISSON, IN THK GaLAI'AGOS AUCHI- 



PELAGO. 



1. Fuffiiins suhaJaris, Towusend. 



Adult ;>m?e.— Type, Xo. 117472, H.S.N.M.; Dalryniple Rock, Chatham 

 Island, Galapagos, April (>, 1888; C. H. Townsend. Upper portion of 



^Puffinus auduboni, Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1872, p. Ill (Cape Florida; Berlin 

 Mus.). — RiDGWAY, in 15aird, Brewer & Ridgway's Water Birds X. Amer., II, 

 1881, p. .386; Man. N. Amer. Birds, 1887, p. 60.— American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, No. 92. 



Puffiniis obscurus (uec Procellaria ohscitra. (tMELIx). Aununox, Synoj). 1839, p. 

 339.— Lawrence, in Baird's Birds \. Amer., 18.'i8, p. 83.5. — Coues, J'roc. 

 Aca(L Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, ]>. 137. 



