374 PTJFFINID^. 



Ih-esser, Birds Evr. viii. p. 527, pi. 616 (1877); Maynard, Birds 

 E. N. Am. p. 492 (1879) ; Cory, Birds Bahama Is. p.' 218 (1880) ; 

 id. List Birds West Indies, p. 34 (1885) ; id. Auk, v. p. 81 (1888); 

 id. Cat. West Ind. Birds, p. 83 (1892) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 630 

 (1882); B. O. U.List Brit. Birds, p. 198 (1883) ; Irhy, Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 190 ; Stearns, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 122 (1882) ; id. Nezo 

 Engl. Bird-Life, ii. p. 383 (1883) ; Saunders, ed. Yarr. Brit. Birds. 

 iv. p. 12 (1884) ;zVZ. Man. Brit. Bird.i, p. 715 (1889); Baird, 

 Breu\ S,- Eidffw. Water-Birds N. Am. ii. p. 380 (1884) ; Collins, 

 Auk, i. pp. 237, 381 (1884) ; id. Ann. Eep. Comm. Fish ^- Fisheries 

 for 1882, pp. 311-338, pi. 1 (1884) ; Brewster, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. 

 H. sxii. p. 404 (1884) ; Tiirner, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 253 

 (1885) ; Seeb. Hist. Brit. Birds, iii. p. 417, pi. 56 (1885) ; Macph. 

 Pr. R. Phys. Soc. Edinh. ix. p. 141 (1886) ; Swinburne, Pr. R. 

 Phys. Soc. Edinb. ix. p. 196 (1886) ; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Am. 

 Birds, p. 100 (1886) ; Ridyw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 59 (1887) ; 

 id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mu.s. xii. p. 139 (1890) ; Tait, Ibis, 1887, p. 398; 

 Lilford, Coloured Fig. Birds Brit. Is. pt. viii. (1888) ; Palmer, 

 Pr. U.S. Nat. Mm. xiii. p. 256 (1890). 

 The Greater Shearwater, Yarr. Brit. Birds, iii. p. 602 (1843). 



Adult male. Upper surface brown, crown darker, nape paler ; the 

 feathers of the body edged with pale brown, the ends of the longest 

 tail-coverts whitish ; under surface white, middle of the abdomen, 

 some spots on the flanks, and the under tail-coverts sooty, the last 

 edged with whitish ; under wing-coverts white, the feathers near 

 the edge of the wing dusky next the shaft on the outer web ; quills 

 white towards the base on the inner web ; axillaries white, with 

 dusky ends and white tips : bill dark horn-colour ; tarsi and toes 

 yellow, outwardly hazel. Total length about 19 inches, wing 12-7 ; 

 tail, central rectriccs 4-65, lateral rectrices 375 ; tarsus 2-3, middle 

 toe 275, outer toe 2-6, inner toe 2-25. 



Female like the male. 



Hah. Atlantic Ocean from the Faeroe Islands and Greenland south- 

 wards to the Cape of Good Hope and the Falkland Islands. 



a. $ ad. sk. Faeroes, June 12, 1875 (H. C. E. Hargitt [C.]. 



Miiller). 



b. Ad. st. Torquay, Devonshire. C. Coninghani, Esq. 



c. Ad. St. Polperro, Cornwall. D. W. Mitch eD, Esq. 



[P.]. 



d. (S ad.sk. Fiskensesset, Greenland, June E. Hargitt [C.]. 



28. 



e. cJ ad. sk. Lat. 44° 14' N., long. 58° 03' Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W., Aug. 2 (Collins : Hen- 

 shaw Coll.). 



f. g. Ad. sk. N. America. Hudson's Bav Co. 



[P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. S. Atlantic, lat. 36° 50' S., J. MacgiUivray [C.]. 



long. 27° 5' W., Feb. 13. 



i. Ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope. S.-African Museum. 



;. Ad. St. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



k. Ad. St. Falkland Islands. Antarctic Exped. 



I. Ad. sk. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m-p. Sterna. " Europe." Purchased. 



