376 ruFFiNiD^. 



Aiik, V. p. 203 (1888) ; Butcher, Auk, v. pp. 170, 173 (1888), vi. 

 p. 128 ; Maynard, Quart. Joum. Bost. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 63 ; Hives, 

 Auk, V. p. 103 (1889). 

 Cinereous Puffin, Nutt. Man., Water-Birds, p. 334 (1834). 



Adult male. Greyish brown, darker and more uniform on the 

 crown ; the feathers of the back edged with paler grey, the longer 

 upper tail-coverts whitish or mottled : wings and tail dark brownish 

 black ; under surface white, the cheeks and sides of the neck pale 

 grey, mottled %vith white ; under tail-coverts white, mottled at the 

 edge ; under wing-coverts white, the edge of the wing dark greyish 

 brown ; axillaries nearly pure white : bill yellow, the tip yellowish 

 horn-colour ; tarsi and toes yellow, darker outwardh'. Total length 

 about 20 inches, wing 14 ; taU, central rectrices 5-35, lateral rectrices 

 3-9 ; bill 2-7, tarsus 2-3, middle toe 2-9, outer toe 2-85, inner toe 2-4. 



Female like the male. 



Hah. Mediterranean Sea ; Atlantic Ocean from Madeira and 

 Canaries to the coast of Massachusetts ; Kerguelen Island. 



a. Ad.sk. Sea of Marmora (iio&.ww). Tweeddale Coll. 



b. Pull. sk. Cyclades {Dr. Eriiper). Seebohm Coll. 



c. Pull. sk. Cyclades {Dr. Kriiper). Baron A. von Hiigel. 



d. e. Ad. st. Italy. Purchased. 



f. Ad. sk, Corsica. J. Whitehead, Esq. 



[P.]. 



g. <S ad. sk. Malaga {B. Mena). Col. Irby [P.]. 



h. S; i. 2 ad. Deserta Grande, May 4, 1890. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 



sk. Esq. [P.]. 



j-m. S 2 ad.sk. Great Salvage I., April 23-26, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 



1895. Esq. [P.]._ 



n. 2 ad. sk. Lime I., Porto Santo, April 11, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 



1895. Esq. [P.]. 



o. 2 ad. sk. Off Gav Head, N. Am., Oct. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. TV. Henshaic). 



p. S ad. sk. Chatham, Mass., Oct. 11 (C B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Cory), 



q-s. 2 ad. sk. Wood's HoU, Mass., Sept. {H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. Henshaw). 



t. Ad. sk. Azores {F. D. Godman). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



u, V. Ad. sk. Kerguelen Land. Antarctic Exped. 



w. Ad. St. Purchased ? 



.T-b'. Skeletons Great Salvage Is. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 



& various bones. Esq. [P.]. 



7. Puffinus creatopus. 



PufBnus creatopus, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, pp. 131, 144 ; id. op. 

 ' cit. 1866, p. 192 ; id. Key N. Am. Birds, p. 331 (1872), ed. 2, p. 785 

 (1884); id. Check-list li. Am. Birds, p. 128 (1882) ; Flliot, B. N. 

 Am. i. Introd. (1869) ; Salv. Ibis, 1875, p. 376 ; id. P. Z. S. 1883, 

 p. 431 ; Bidgw. Pr. U.S. Xat. Mus. iii. p. 230; id. Man. N. Ain. Birds, 

 p. 59 (1887) ; Baird, Breic. S,- Bidgw. Water-Birds N. Am. ii. p. 383 

 (1884) ; Cooper, Auk, iii. p. 125 ; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Ain. Birds, 

 p. 101 (1886) ; Loomis, Pr. Cal. Ac. Sc. ser. 2, v. p. 217 (1895). 



Adult male. Upper surface dark greyish brown, nearly uniform, 

 the feathers of the back being very indistinctly edged with a paler 



