382 PTJFFINID^. 



on the upper surface, the bill longer and stouter, and the axillaries 

 sooty for iiearlj' the whole of their length, the tips being white. 

 Total length about 12 inches, wing 7'8 ; tail, central rectrices 2-9, 

 lateral rectrices 2-45 ; tarsus 1-5, middle toe 1'7, outer toe 1-65, 

 inner toe 1'4. 



Hab. Persian Gulf. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Open sea between Gwadar and Hume Coll. (Type 

 Muscat, Feb. 21, 1872 {A. of the species,)' 



O. //.). 



h. 5 ad. sk. Mekran Coast, May 17, 1877 Hume Coll. 

 {Ccqn. Butler). 



14. Pufflnus obscurus. 



Cahow, Smith, Hist. Vinj. (1G21») ; rurchas, Pilgr. (1738). 



Husky Petrel, Lath. Gen. Si/n. iii. pt. 2, p. 416 (1785j ; id. Gen. 

 Hist. Birds, x. p. 197 (1824) ; Nutt. Man. Water-Birds N. A7n. 

 p. 337 (1834). 



Procellaria obscura, Gnt. Syst. Nat. i. p. 559 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. ii. p. 825 (1790) ; Bechst. in Lath. Uebers. iii. p. 364, iv. 

 p. 500 ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xvii. p. 423 (1817) ; id. Enc. 

 Meth. p. 81 (1823) ; id. Gal Ois. ii. p. 230, pi. 301 (1825) ; 2>mm. 

 Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 808 (1820); Werner, Atlas, Palmip. pi. — ; 

 Kuhl, Beitr. p. 147 (1820) ; Goitld, Birds Eur. pi. 444; Jacq. 

 (§• Puch. Voy. Pole Sitd, iii. p. 125 (1853); Schl. Mus. P.-B., 

 vi. Procell. p. 30 (18G3) ; Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 98 

 (18G7) ; Pollen Sf Van Bam, Faun. Madug., Ois. p. 144 (1868). 



Pufflnus obscurus, Sfeph. in Shaws Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 230 (1826) ; 

 Atid. Orn. Bioyr. iii. p. 620 (1835); id. Birds N. Am. pi. 299; 

 id. 8vo ed. vii. p. 99, pi. 458 (1844) ; Gould, Birds Eur. v. pi. 443 

 (1837); Bp. Comp. List, p. 04 (1838); id. Compt. Bend. xlii. 

 p. 769 (1856) ; id. Consp. Av. ii. p. 204 (1856) ; Fritsch, Voy. Eur. 

 pi. 61. finf. 1 ; Gray, List Anseres Brit. Mus. p. 160 (1844) ; id. Gen. 

 Birds, iii. p. 647 (1844) ; id. Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. Pac. p. 55 (1859) ; 

 id. Cut. Brit. Birds, p. 223 (1863) ; id. Hand-l. iii. p. 103 (1871) ; 

 Yarr. Hist. Brit. Birds, Supipl. p. 67 (1845); Schl. Rev. Crit. Ois. 

 Eur. p. cxxxiii (1844) ; id. Voy. Nederl. i. p. 535, pi. 333 ; Brehni, 

 Naum. 1855, p. 296; id. Voyelf. p. 356 (1856) ; Harcourt,Ann. 8f 

 Mag. N. H. 1858, xv. p. 4.36; Jaub. ^ Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. 

 Fr. p. 382 (1858) ; Stev. Zool. 1858, p. 6C96 ; id. Trans. Norf. ^ 

 Norw. Nat. Hist. Soc. iii. p. 467; id. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 321 ; Jonei, 

 Nat. Bermuda, pp. 55, 93 (1859) ; Brtjant, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. 

 p. 132 (1860 ) ; Lawr. Birds N. Am. p. 835 (1860) ; Coues, Pr. Ac. 

 Phil. 1864, pp. 1.37, 144; id. Key N. Am. Birds, p. 331(1872), 

 ed. 2, p. 786 (1884) ; id. Check-list N. Am. Birds, p. 128 (1882) ; 

 Verr. in Vinsori's Voy. Madaq., Annexe B, p. 4 (1865) ; Godman, 

 Ibis, 1866, pp. 104, 107; id. Nat. Hist. Azores, pp. 39, 42 (1870) ; 

 Loche, Expl. Sci. Alyer., Ois. ii. p. 175 (1867) ; Beyl. Hf Gerbe, Ois. 

 Eur. ii. p. 380 (1867); Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 285; Fi7isch i^- Hartl. 

 Faim. Centralpol. p. 245 (1867); iid. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 110; E. 

 Neivton, Ibis, 1867, p. 359: Hutton, Lbis, 1869, p. 352; Pelz. This, 

 1873, p. 47; Blanf. Ibis, 1873, p. 2i5; id. E. Persia, ii. p. 295 

 (1876) ; Finsch, J. Mus. Godeffr. xii. p. 40 (1876) ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, 

 l)p. 782, 786, 1880, p. 577; id. J. f. Orn. 1880, pp. 295, 309; id Ibis, 

 1880, p. 430, 1881, pp. 109, 113 {Hartl. Vd</. Madag. p. 370 (1877) ; 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 765 ; Sah. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 131 ; id. op. cit. 



