AXSERES, 85 



productions. Its flight consists of a rapid fluttering- movement along 

 the surface of the water ; and it dives through the waves with amaz- 

 ing agility/' — Buller. 



127. Haladroma berardi. Quoy et Gaim. 



Similar to H. urlnatrix, but with a more slender bill, and having the legs and feet 

 yellowish, with dark webs. 



L.,7; W., 4-25; B, G ; T., -75. 

 Hah.- — Chatham Islands. 



PoFFiNUS. Briss. 



Bill, not longer than the head, slender ; nasal tubes, short, flat, obliquely truncated ; 

 hind toe, reduced to a claw. 

 All parts of the world. 



128. Puffinus gavius. Forst. 



Kain-bied oe Wet-bied. Sheaewateb. Haeoaeoa. 



Above, brownish-black ; below, white ; bill, bluish-black ; legs and feet, yellow, black on 

 the outside margins. 



L., 13-25 ; W., 84 ; B., 1-7 ; T., 1-5 ; tail, 3-25. 

 Hab. — Botli Islands, South Pacific. 



" This species of Petrel^ Avhich enjoys a wide oceanic range, is 

 comparatively common in the seas surrounding New Zealand ; and 

 after stormy weather it is frequently picked up, either dead or in an 

 exhausted state, among the sea-drift on the open strand." — Buller. 



129. Puffinus brevicaudus. Brandt. 



Brownisli-black ; bill, black, yellowish at the base ; feet bluisli, webs yellow. 



L., 16-4 ; W., 10-7o ; B., 1-6 ; T., 2. 



-E^^.— White ; lengtli, 2-75 ; breadth, 187. (Gould.) 



Hab. — Australia. 



" This species of Petrel is very abundant on our coasts, and 

 retires inland, sometimes to a distance of fifty miles, to breed. It 

 •nests in underground burrows, forming often large colonies, and 

 resorting to the same breeding-place year after year. There is said 

 to be an extensive nesting-ground of this kind in the Kaimanawa 

 Ranges, in the Taupo-Patea country. At certain seasons the Natives 

 collect large numbers of these birds and preserve them in calabashes, 

 potted in their own fat, either for future use or as gifts to neighbour- 

 ing tribes." — Buller. 



130. Puffinus tristis. Forst. 



SoMBEE Sheaewatee. Mutton-bied. Oil. 



Brownish-black, ligliter below, whitish on the chin ; most of the under wing-coverts, 

 white ; bill, bluish-wliite, shading into black on tlie upper and lower margius ; legs and 

 feet, bluish-white, the membrane dark. In the young the bill is black, and the feet 

 brownish. 



L., 17; W., 12 ; B., 2; T., 21. 



Egg. — While, stained with reddish-brown ; length, 3 25 j breadth, 2. 



flab. — South Island, South Pacific. 



