1. rUFFINUS. 371 



/. Ad. .sk. Catag-iiau, I'hilippine Islands. li. Cuming [0.]. 



<j. Ad. sk. Sandakan, N. Euineo {H.. B. Salvin-Godiiiau Cull. 



Pryer). 

 h, I. Ad. sk. Yokohama, Japan (//. B. Seebohm Coll. 



Pri/er). 

 j. Ad.sk. Coast of N.E. Au.stralia(CocA- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



erell). 



2. Pufflnus ciineatus. 



Puffinus cuneatiis, Salvin, Ibis, 1888, p. 3.53 (Jiily) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1891, 

 p. 191 ; Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mux. .xii. p. 377 (1890) ; Wiglesivorth, 

 Abh. k. Zool. Mas. Dresden, 1892, no. 6, p. 80; Wilson, Aves 

 Hawaiienses, part vi. (1892). 



PiitHuus knudseui, Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. p. 93 (1888, Nov. 8), 



Adult. Upper surface brown ; crown, lower back, lesser wing- 

 coverts, and primaries darker ; feathers of the anterior part of the 

 back broadly edged with paler brown ; greater wing-coverts towards 

 the margin tinged with gre)' ; under surface white ; sides of the 

 neck mottled with gre}' ; under tail-coverts dusky ; under wing- 

 coverts greyish white, edge of the wing dark ; axillaries dusky grey : 

 bill dark horn-colour; tarsi and toes yellowish, the outer toe darker. 

 Total length about 17 inches, wing 11"8 ; tail, central rectrices 5*4, 

 lateral rectrices 3"6 ; bill 2-2, tarsus 1-9, middle toe 2-32, outer toe 

 2*2, inner toe 1'9. 



One of the types is greyer beneath, especially over the breast, 

 flanks, and lower abdomen. The other type is exactly like the 

 specimen in the Museum from the Sandwich Islands. 



Hah. North Pacific Ocean from the Sandwich Islands to Volcano 

 Island south of Japan. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Krusenstern Island, N. Pacific, Salvin-Godman & 

 spring of 1883 {U. J. Snow). Seebohm Colls. 



(Types of the species.) 



c. 2 ii*!- ^1^- Sulphur I., Benin Is., June 8, Seebohm Coll. 



1890 {P. A. Hoist). 



d, e. Ad. sk. Hawaii (Kninlsen). Prof. Collett [P.]. 



3. Puffinus bulleri. 



Putliuus bulleri, Salciti, Ibis, 1888, p. 3.'34 ; Buller, Birds N. Zeal. 



ed. 2, ii. p. 240, pi. 41. fig. 2 (1888) ; id. Tr. N. Z. Inst, xxiii. 



p. 42 (1891). 

 Puffinus zealanicus, Sandager, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xxii. p. 291 (1890). 



Adult. Upper surface dark grey, crown and back of the neck 

 sooty-black, the lores and region below the eyes mottled with 

 greyish white ; lesser wing-coverts sooty-black ; larger coverts grey 

 and bordered with white ; primaries outwardly black, two-thirds of 

 the inner web white ; under surface and under wing-coverts white ; 

 under tail-coverts white, with a grey edge ; tail blackish, outer 

 rectrices tinged with grey : bill dark horn-colour, the mandible 

 beneath fleshy ; tarsi and toes yellowish, outwardly dusky. Total 

 length about lG-5 inches, wing 11-3; tail, central rectrices 5'2, 



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