370 PUFFIXID.E. 



d'". Primaries beneath white on tbe iuner 



edge of the iiiuer web * assMiUis, p. 384. 



e'. Plumage generally sooty. 



e". Larger : wing 12'5 inches and upwards. 

 e'". Under wing-coverts sooty ; bill, except 



at the tip, flesh-colour . , carneipes, p. 385. 



f". Under wing-coverts ashy white with 



dark shafts ; bill dark ffriseus, p. 386. 



/". Smaller : wing 10'4 inches and under. 

 ff'". Under surface greyer ; tarsi and toes 



longer tenmrostris, p. 388. 



/('". Under surface darker brown ; tarsi and 



toes .-ihorter nativitatis, p. 389. 



1. Pufflnus leucomelas, 



Puffiuus leucomelas, Temm. PI. Col. 687 (1836) ; Temm. 8,- Schl. Faun. 

 Jap. p. 131, pi. 85 (1842) ; Gray, List Anseres Brit. Mm. p. 160 

 (1844) ; id. Gen. Birds, iii. p. 647 (1844); id. Hand-l. iii. p. 102 

 ( 1871) ; Eeich. Av. St/st. Nat., Stiiypl. Lomjip. pi. ix. tig. 767 (1850) ; 

 Jacq. L^ Puch. Voy. Pole Sud, iii. p. 138 (1853) ; Bp. Consp. Av. 

 ii. p. 203 (1856) ; >Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 330 ; Coues, Pr. 

 Ac. Phil. 1864, pp. 130, 144; Giyl. Faun. Vert. Oceana, p. 33 

 (1870) ; id. Viaffff. 'Mac/enta; pp. 331, 332 (1875) ; JDavid ^ Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 515 (1877) ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 16 ; Meyer, 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 144 ; Skarpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 800 ; Blakist. f Pryer, 

 Trans. As. Soc. Jap. \. p. 100 (1882) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 461 

 (1882) ; id. op. cit. Siippl. p. 213 (1891) ; Blakist. Amended List 

 Birds Jap. pp. 10, 35 (1884) ; id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 655 

 (1886) ; Pleske, Bull. Ac. Petersb. xxix. p. 539 (1884) ; Seehohm, 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 176; id. Birds Jap. Emp. p. 264 (1890); Eidyu: 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 62 (1887). 



Thielhis leucomelas, Bp. Compf. Bend. xlii. p. 769 (1856). 



I'rocellaria leucomelas, Schl. Mus. P.-B., vi. Procell. p. 24 (1863). 



Adult male. Upper surface brown, the feathers of the body and 

 wings with paler dusky edges ; anterior portion ^l the crown, fore- 

 head, sides of the head, and neck white, each feather with a dark 

 disc, M'hich is narrow on the forehead and sides of the head and 

 neck, giving a streaked appearance ; entire under surface white ; 

 under wing-coverts white, the interior ones with dark shafts, those 

 near the edge of the wing with dark discs : axillaries pure white ; 

 tail brown, the inner webs of the lateral rectrices near the base 

 white ; primaries black throughout : bill horn-colour ; feet flesh- 

 colour, the outer toe a little darker. Total length about 19 inches, 

 wing 13 ; tail, outer rectrices 4, central rectrices 5-6. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hah. Seas of Japan and Corea and thence southwards to the 

 Philippine Islands, N. Borneo, the Moluccas, and the N. coast of 

 Australia. 



a. cJ ad.sk. Port Hamilton, Corea, May (G. H. Saunders, Esq. 



Stephen;. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Japan (II. J. Snoiii). Seebohm Coll. 

 c,d. S 't e. $ ad. Hakodate, Japan (Jf.J^ &ici(y). Salvin-Godman, 



sk. Tweeddale, and 



Seebohm Colls. 



* Piiffinus elegans comes here. 



