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tail, central rectrices 2'65, lateral reetrices 2*6 ; bill 1'4, tarsus 1-5, 

 middle toe I'o, outer too 1*62, iuuer toe 1'3. 



Sexes alike. 



Hah. Australian and 'Sew Zealand Seas, and northwards in the 

 Atlantic Ocean to Deserta Grande near Madeira. 



16. Puffinus elegans. 



Puffinus elegans, Gigl. Sf Salvad. Ibis, 1869, p. 67 ; rid. Atti Soc. Ital. 

 So. Nat. xi. p. 457 ; Gif/l. Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 32 (1870) ; id. 

 Viagy. ^ Mayerita,'' pp. 98, 10i5 (1875) ; Salv. in Hotvley's Orn. Misc. 

 i. p. 256, pi. 34 (1876) ; Midgiu. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 61 (1887). 



" P. supra ex toto ciuereo-plumbeis, plumis totis angustissime 

 limbatis ; tectricibus alarum mediis, majoribus ac remigibus secun- 

 dariis albo limbatis, fascias tres trans alam formantibus ; subtus, 

 tectricibus alte inferioribus remigibusque intus candidis ; capitis ac 

 colli lateribus albo-cinereo mixtis ; Cauda brevi ex toto cinereo- 

 plumbea ; tarsis postice nigris, supra caerulescentibus, palamis 

 albidis, unguibus nigris ; rostro tenui, caerulescente, culmine et apice 

 nigris; iride brunnea. Long, tota circa 1L5, alae 7'3, caudae 2-7, 

 rostri a fronte 1'07, a rictu 1'4, tarsi Iw, dig. med. cum ungue 1*95.'' 

 {GigUoli 4" Saluadori ut supra.) 



Hab. South Atlantic Ocean. 



No further information has transpired respecting this species. It 

 is possible that it may be referable to P. assimilis, the type being 

 a young bird. 



17. Puffinus carneipes. 



Puffinus carneipes, Gould, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 57 ; id. Birds Austr. vii. 

 pi. 57 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. Birds, iii. p. 647 (1844) ; Seeb. Ibis, 

 1884, p. 176; id. Birds Jap. Einp. p. 265 (1890); Blakiston, 

 Amended List Jap. Birds, pp. 21, 36 (1884) ; id. Pr. U.S. Nat. 



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