10 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Fulmarus glacialis glupisclia Stejneger is a new name for Procellaria 

 pacifica Audubon 1839 (not Gmelin 1788), with the same type specimens. 



Genus PRIOCELLA Hombron and Jacquinot 



Procellaria tenuirostris Audubon 



Ornithological biography 5:333, 1839. 



=Priocella antarctica (Stephens). See Stone, Auk 47:414, 1930; 

 A.O.U., Checklist of North American birds, ed. 4, p. 367, 1931. 



2032. Adult (sex not indicated). "Within a day's sail from the mouth 

 of the Columbia River" {fide Audubon, loc. ci7.)=probably the 

 southern Pacific Ocean {see Stone, Auk 47: 414, 1930). Collected by 

 John K. Townsend. Received from Spencer F. Baird, who acquired it 

 from John J. Audubon. 



Genus PUFFINUS Brisson 



Puffinus creatopus "Cooper (mss.) " Coues 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 131 (not earlier than April 25), 

 1864. 

 =Puffinus creatopus Coues. See Peters, Checklist of birds of the world 



1:54,1931. 

 31964. Adult (sex not indicated). San Nicolas Island, Ventura County, 

 California. July 1, 1863. Collected by James G. Cooper. Original 

 number 1080. Received from the Geological Survey of California. 

 Puffinus knudseni Stejneger 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 11: 93, Nov. 8, 1888. 

 =Puffinus pacificus chlororhynchus Lesson. See Murphy, Amer. Mus. 

 Nov. 1512: 17, 1951. 

 113445. Adult (sex not indicated). Kauai Island, Hawaiian Islands, 

 Oceania. Entered into the museum register on May 9, 1888. Col- 

 lected by Valdemar Knudsen. 

 All data for this bird are derived from Stejneger's entry in the register. 

 The original label, part of a sheet of lined tablet paper, bears simply the 

 Hawaiian name "U-a-u Kane." 

 Nectric amaurosoma Coues 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 124 (not earlier than April 25), 

 1864. 

 =Puffinus griseus (Gmelin). See Coues, Key to North American birds, 



ed. 5, 2: 1038, 1903. 

 47214. Adult (sex not indicated). Cape San Lucas, State of Baja Cali- 

 fornia, Mexico. August 18, 1860. Collected by John Xantus. 

 Original number 5513. 

 Xantus identified this bird in his field catalog as "Larus Heermannii, 

 juvenis" and wrote "Landed half starved and half dead by the gale." 

 Puffinus (Nectris) uativitatis Streets 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 7: 29, July 5, 1877. 



