-^. 



390 PUFFINIDiE. 



especially on the under surface, the throat alone being slightly 

 greyish : bill and feet black. Total length about 14 inches, wing 9'8 ; 

 tail, central rectrices 3'6, lateral rectrices 2-75 ; bill 1'6, tarsus 1'62, 

 middle and outer toes l-S, inner toe 1'55. 



Nah. Central North Pacific Ocean, from Christmas I. to Krusen- 

 stern I. and the Phoenix Group. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Kruseustern I., Spring of 1883 Salvin-Godman & 



(H. J. Snow). Seebolim Colls. 



c. c? ad. sk. Phcenix I., Phoenix Group, J. J. Lister, Esq. 



June 29, 1889. [P.]. 



2. PRIOFINUS. ^ 



Priofinus, Hombr. Sf Jacq. Conipt. Haid. xviii. p. 355 



(1844); Jacq. ^ Puck. Voy. Pole Sucl, Zool. iii. 



p. 145, t. 32. figs. 9-14 (1853) ; Coues, Pr. Ac. 



Phil. 1866, p. 192 P. cinereus. 



Adamastor, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 187 (1855) ; Coues, 



Pr. Ac. Phil. 1864, p. 119 P. cinereus. 



Range. Southern Oceans. 



1. Priofinus cinereus. 



Le Puffin -eendr^^-^'zss. 0)-n. vi. p. 134, pi. xii. fig. 1 (1760). 



Le Petrel cendr^, Puf. Hist. Nat. Ois. ix. p. 302, pi. 20 (1763). 



Le Puffin, D'Aub. PI. Enl. 962. 



Cinereous Fulmar, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 2, p. 405 (1785). 



Cinereous Petrel, Lath. Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii. p. 336 (1802) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. X. p. 183 (1824). 

 Procellaria einerea, Gtn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 563 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



ii. p. 824 (1790); Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 418 (1817) ; id. 



Enc. Meth. p. 78 (1813) ; Kuhl, Beitr. p. 148 (1820) ; Pollen 8( 



Vu7i Dam, Faun. Madaq., Ois. p. 145 (1868); Huttnn, Cat. Birds 



N. Zeal. p. 45 (1871) ; Puller, Birds N. Zeal. p. .305 (1873) ; Hartl. 



Vdff. Madag. p. 374 (1877) ; Milne-Edw. c^- Grand. Hist. Madag., 



Ois. p. 671 (1885). 

 Procellaria gelida, Vinll. N. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 419 (1817) ; 



id. Enc. Meth. p. 79 (1823). 

 Procellaria melanura, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 79 (1823). 

 Puffiuus cinereus, Stejih. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 227 (1826) ; 



Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 56 (1840) ; Gould, Voy. ' Beagle,' 



ii. Birds, p. 137 (1841) ; Gray, List Anseres Brit. Mus. p. 159 



(1844) ; id. Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 223 (1863) : Peale, U.S. Expl. 

 • Exp. viii. p. 338 (1848); Reich. Av. Syst. Nat., Natatores, 



pi. 14. figs. 768, 769 (1850) ; Lawr. Birds N. Am. p. 835 (I860) ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1863, p. 247 ; id. Birds S. Afr. p. 358 (1867) ; A. O. U. 



Check-l. N. Am. Birds, p. 102 (1880) ; Ridg^v. Man. N. Am. Birds, 



p. 58 (1887). _ 

 Procellaria haesitata, Forst. Descr. An. p. 208 (1844) {?tec Kuhl) ; 



Gould, Birds Austr. vii. pi. 47 (1848) ; Hutton, Ibis, 1865, p. 285, 



1867, p. 187 ; Cab. S,- Reich. J.f. Orn. 1876, p. 329. 

 Priofinus cinereus, Jacq. ^ Piich. Voy. Pole Sitd, Zool. iii. p. 145 



(1853) ; Pp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 769 (] 856) ; Elliot, Birds N. Am. 



ii. pi. 60. fig. 2 (1868) ; Gigl. Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 34 (1870) ; 



