FAMILY PROCELLARIIDAE 37 



45 kilometers south southwest of Bahia Pifias. Through the courtesy 

 of Oscar W. Owre I have examined the skin of a male caught by 

 Robins in a dipnet at Isla Camote, on July 25. 



Apparently this species, which nests far to the southward, may 

 enter Panamanian waters with some regularity during its wanderings 

 outside the nesting season. 



PUFFINXIS LHERMINIERI Lesson: Audubon's Shearwater; Pardela Chica 



A small shearwater, pure white underneath. 



Description. — Length 300 to 330 mm. Blackish brown above, white 

 below ; under tail coverts black and white. 



Iris brown; bill black, becoming dark neutral gray on mandible, 

 and at base of culmen; outer side of tarsus and outer toes dull 

 black ; inner side of tarsus, rest of toes, and webs, flesh color. 



Three subspecies of Audubon's shearwater are recorded from 

 Panama, one a wanderer from its nesting grounds in the Galapagos 

 Islands, one established in a breeding colony on the coast of Bocas del 

 Toro, and the third recorded from a single specimen taken on the 

 Caribbean coast near the Colombian boundary. 



PUFFINTJS LHERMINIERI LHERMINIERI Lesson 



Pufflnus (sic) Lherminieri Lesson, Rev. Zool., vol, 2, no. 3, April (May), 1839, 

 p. 102. (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles.) 



Characters. — Like P. I. loycmilleri in color but larger in size. 



Measurements. — Males (31 specimens from Bermuda, Bahama 

 Islands, and Lesser Antilles), wing 195-209 (201), tail 83.5-95.0 

 (88.2), culmen from base 28.1-31.8 (30.0), tarsus 37.8-42.5 (40.2) 

 mm. 



Females (29 specimens from Bermuda, Bahama Islands, and Lesser 

 Antilles), wing 193-210 (200), tail 83.7-95.0 (88.9), culmen from 

 base 25.7-31.0 (29.2), tarsus 38.0-41.8 (40.4) mm. 



Casual on the Caribbean coast. One record for eastern Comarca 

 de San Bias. 



A male in the Herbert Brandt Collection in the museum of the 

 University of Cincinnati was collected by Wedel at Puerto Obaldia 

 on March 10, 1934. The wing measurement of 202 mm. places it 

 with the typical subspecies. The nearest known breeding colony of 

 this form is the one on Crab Cay off Isla Providencia mentioned 

 in the account of the race P. I. loyemilleri that follows. 



