1. PUFFINUS. 387 



Puffinus major, Gray, Voy. ' Ereb. ^- Terr.' i. Birds, p. 17 (1846). 



Nectris fuliginosus et chilensis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 202 (1856). 



Puffinus carneipes {nee Gould), Schl. Mus. P.-B., Procell. vi. p. 20 

 (18(i:3) ; Scl. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 336. 



Nectris auiaurosoma, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, pp. 124, 143 ; id. 

 Key N. Am. Birds, ed. 2, p. 787 (1884) ; Elliot, N. Am. Birds, 

 pi. 62. fig. 2 (1868) ; Set. ^ Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. 500; iid. Nomencl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 149 (1873); Hutton, Ibis, 1872, p. 83; Tacz. Orn. 

 Per. iii. p. 463 (1886). 



Puffinus amaurosoma, Gic/l. Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 34 (1870) ; id. 

 Viagy. ' Mayentn,' pp. 844, 861 (1875) ; Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 p. .332 (1872) ; id. Check-list N. Am. Birds, p. 129 (1882). 



Puffinus griseus, Finsch, J.f. Orn. 1874, p. 209 ; Salv. in Rowley'' s 

 Orn. Misc. i. p. 236 (1876) ; id. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 431 ; id. Ibis, 

 1888, p. 355 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 623, pi. 616 (1877) ; 

 Ridyw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. pp. 12, 230, v. p. 534 ; id. Man. 

 N. A7n. Birds, p. 61 (1887) ; Bryant, Pr. Cal. Ac. Sc. (2) ii. p. 87; 

 Bocaye, Orn. Angola, p. 510 (1881 ) ; B. O. U. List Brit. Birds, 

 p. 108 (1883) ; Southvell, Ibis, 1883, p. 228 ; Sauiid. P. Z. S. 

 1884, p. 150 ; id. ed. Yarr. Brit. Birds, iv. p. 17 (1884); id. Man. 

 Brit. Birds, p. 717 (1889); Baird, Brew., ^ Ridyw. Water-Birds 

 N. Am. ii. p. 391 (1884) ; Sharpe, ed. Layards Birds S. Afr. 

 p. 770 (1884); Blakiston, Amefid. List Jap. Birds, pp. 21. .35 

 (1886); id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 655 (1887); Seeb. Ibis, 

 1884, p. 33; id. Hist. Brit. Birds, iii. p. 427 (1885) ; id. Birds Jap. 

 Emp. p. 266 (1890) ; Swinborne, Pr. R. Phys. Soc. Edinb. ix. p. 197 

 (1886) : A. O. U. Check-l. N. Am. Birds, p. 101 (1886) ; Tait, 

 Ibis, 1887, p. 398 ; Bidler, Birds N. Zeal. ed. 2, ii. p. 232 (1888) ; 

 id. Trans. N. Zeal. hist. xxiv. p. 66 (1892) ; id. op. cit. xxvii. p. 124 

 (1895); Stevens. Birds Norf. iii. p. -364 (1890); Borrer, Birds 

 .Susse.v, p. 282 (1891); H. O. Forbes, Ibis, 189.3, p. 542 ; Aplin, 

 Ibis, 1894, p. 212 ; Loomis,Pr. Cal. Ac. Sc. ser. 2, v. p.217 (1895). 



Puffinus stricklandi, Ridyw. in Baird, Breto. ^ Ridyiv. Water-Birds 

 N. Am. ii. p. 390 (1884) ; Cooper, Auk, iii. pp. 125, 402 ; Ridyw. 

 Auk, iii. p. 267 (1886) ; id. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 61 (1887) ; 

 Titrner, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 253 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-l. 

 N. Am. Birds, p. 101 (1886) ; IF. Palmer, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 xiii. p. 257 (1890). 



Adult male. Sooty-brown, darker on the head, lower back, wings 

 and tail, the feathers of the back very indistinctly edged with a 

 paler shade ; greater wing-coverts a little greyer ; under surface 

 greyer, the throat and breast paler ; quills dark sooty-black ; under 

 wing-coverts greyish white, each feather with a dark shaft : bill 

 horn-colour; tarsi and toes dark hazel. Total length about 18 

 inches, wing 12 ; tail, central rectrices 3*5, lateral rectrices 2*7; 

 bill 2-1, tarsus 2*4, middle and outer toes 2-Q, inner toe 2'1. 



Female like the male. 



Hah. Generally distributed throughout the seas of both hemi- 

 spheres from the Eaeroe Islands in the Xorth Atlantic and the Kurile 

 Islands in the jN^orth Pacific to the Straits of Magellan and the 

 Auckland Islands in the south. 



a. ? ad. sk. Faeroes, Aug. 1873 {H. C. MiWer). E. Hargitt, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Plymouth Sound, Devonshire Salvin-Godman Coll. 



coast (J. Gould). 



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