384 rpFFixiD^E. 



straggler to the coasts of Great Britain, and not common on those 

 of JNew Zealand. 



a. Ad. sk. [Said to have been shot in Sahdn-Godnian Coll. 



Devonshire (J. Gould).'] 



b. S ad. sk. Bourbon I. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Cousine I., Seychelles. Shelley Coll. 



d. Juv.sk. Aneiteum, N. Hebrides, Jau. 18. J. MacgiUivray [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Telew Is. (Cohen). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /; (/. Ad. sk. Pelew Is. — Cohen, Esq. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Manua, Samoa Is. (T. Powell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 i-m. Ad. et pull. Tau I., Samoa Group (Mr.s. T. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. -S. Cusack- Smith). 



n. Ad. sk. [New Zealand.] Salvin-Godman Coll. 



0. Ad. sk. Charles Is., Galapagos Is., Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1880 [A. H. Markham). 

 p. Ad. sk. Montserrat, W. Indies {Sturge). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



q, r. Ad. sk. Capt.Kellett & Lieut. 



Wood [P.]. 

 s. Skeleton. 



15. Puffinus assimilis. 

 Puffinus assimilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 18-37, p. 156; id. Birds Austr. vii. 

 pi. 59 (1848); Gray, List Ansereti Brit. Mm. p. 159 (1844) ; id. 

 Gen. Birds, iii. p. 647 (1844) ; id. Ibis, 1862, p. 244 ; id. Hmid-l. 

 iii. p. 103 (1871) ; Bp. Compt. Bejid. xlii. p. 769 (1856) ; Coues, 

 Pr. Ac. Phil. 1866, p. 192 ; Hutton, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. i. p. 161 

 (1868) ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 248 ; id. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 750 ; Hartl. <§• 

 Fi7isch, P. Z. S. 1872, p. Ill ; Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 49; Salv. Cat. 

 Strickl. Coll. -p. 631 (1882); Crowfoot, Ibis, 1885, p. 269; Reischek, 

 Tr. N. Zeal. Inst, xviii. p. 95 (1886) ; Ridytv. Man. N. Am. Birds, 

 p. 61 (1887) ; Salv. Ibis, 1888, p. 357 ; Bidler, Birds N. Zeal. ed. 2, 



Lister, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 300 ; Wiylesivorth, Abh. k. Zuol. Mus. 

 Dresden, 1892, no. 6, p. 80. 

 Puffinus nugax, Solatider MS., Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 205 (1856) ; 

 Cones, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, pp. 141, 144 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. 

 ii. p. 458 (1865) ; Finsch ^- Hartl. Faun. Centralp. pp. 242, 280, 

 pi. 3. fig. 5 (1867); Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 393 (?) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1876, pp. 498, 506; Moseley, Notes Nat. Chall. p. 522 (1879). 

 Puffinus bailloni, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 769 (1856) ; id. Consp. 



Av. ii. p. 205 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-l. iii. p. 103 (1871). 

 Procellaria nugax, Schl. Mus. P.-B., vi. Procell. p. 31 (1863). 

 Puffinus obsciu-us, Finsch, J.f. Orn. 1870, p. 370; Grant, Ibis, 1890, 

 p. 444. 



Piiffinus ?, Hartl. ^- Fi7}sch, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 112 ; Fimch, J. 



Mus. Gudeffr. viii. p. 45 (1875). 

 Adult female. Upper surface slaty-black, rather bluer than in 

 P. ohscur'as ; under surface, including the under tail-coverts, pure 

 white, extending over the lower part of the lores and close to the 

 orbit of the eye, the dividing line on the sides of the neck being 

 more definite than in P. ohscurus ; under wing-coverts up to the 

 ed^e of the wing and the outer portion of the inner web of the 

 primaries white except towards the tip : bill black ; tarsi and toes 

 blackish, the webs yellow. Total length about 10-5 inches, wing 7"4; 



