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580. FjiJEBT^TRiAfiiUginosa (Ginel.) Coiies.— Appears to be sufficiently 

 distinct generically from Diomedea. 



583. Priocella tenuirostris (And.) . —This bird seems sufficiently 



distinct generically from Fulmariis, and has been made the type of Pri- 

 ocella, by Hombron & Jacquinot (Compt. Rend., XVIII, 1844, p. 357.) 



595. Priofinus melanurus (Bonn.) . — This species is the type of 



the genus Priofinus, Houib. & Jacq. (t. c. p. 355). 



600. Puffinus auduboni, Finsch. — The Procellaria obscura of Gmel. has 

 been determined by Dr. Finsch (see P. Z. S. 1872, p. Ill) to be a Pacific 

 Ocean species, distinguished from the Puffinus obscurus of recent authors 

 by its ^yhite underwing-co verts and other characters. Dr. Finsch there- 

 fore proposed for the Atlantic species the name auduboni, ns above. 



601. Puffinis GAViA (Forst.) Finsch. — See Gigiioli & Salvadori, Ibis, 

 1809, I). GO ; Finsch, Jour, fiir Orn., 1872, p. 256. 



603. Puffinus ORISEUS (Gmel.) Finsch. — Gf. Finsch, Joui\ fiir. Orn., 

 1874, p. 209 ; Salvin, Eowley's Orn. Misc., iv, 187G, p. 236. 



619. LUNDA cirrliata, Pall. — Sufficiently distinct generically from the 

 species of Fratercula. 



623. Simorhynclius PYGMJ3US (Gmel.) Ridgw. — The Alca pygmcea of 

 Gmelin is unquestionably the young of this species, afterward named 

 ";S^. cassinP^ by Dr. Cones. Alca Tcamtschatica, Lepechin, is the same spe- 

 cies in adult (winter?) i)lumage. 



b. Species and Subspecies not in Coues's Check List. 



SiURUS N^vius xoTABiLis, Giinnell, MS. 



Ch. — Similar to S. ncevius, but much, larger. Wiug, 3.25; tail, 2.50; bill, from 

 nostril, .50; depth at base, .25; tarsus, .83; middle toe, .56. Above dark grayish 

 brown, the feathers of the pileum with indistinctly darker centres. Beneath yellow- 

 ish white, the throat thicklj'- spotted, and the breast and sides heavily streaked with 

 blackish dusky ; a superciliary stripe of pale fulvous, hardly extending back to the 

 end of tbe anriculars. Lores crossed by a distinct streak of black. Centre of the ab- 

 domen immaculate ; lower tail-coverts with central streaks of grayish dusky ; lining of 

 the wing smoky gray. Bill brownish black, the mandible growing lighter brown bas- 

 ally. Feet horn-color. 



flaft.— Black Hills, Wyoming (Mus. G. B. Grinnell). 



The plumage of this bird is in all respects, so far as I can see, quite 

 identical with tliat of ordinary darker plumaged specimens of 8. ncevius, 

 except that the superciliary stripe does not extend so far back and the 

 streaks on the breast are broader ; the former character may be merely 

 apparent, however, and owing to the manner of skinning. 



