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during the summer mouths, whilst Puffinus a. assimilis only breeds in the 

 winter on Meyer Island, so that Cheeseman's remark, " Breeds . . . 

 more sparingly on Sunday Island in company with Puffinus assimilis," 

 needs correction. 



Pterodroma macroptera gouldi (Hutton). 



Aestrelata gouldi Hutton, Ibis, 1869, p. 351 : New Zealand. Oestre- 



lata gouldi BuUer, loc. cit., p. 111. 0. fuliginosa, id., ib., p. 118. 



0. fnacroptera Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 554 ; Oliver, Trans. 



N.Z. Inst., vol. 44, p. 215, 1912. 

 A specimen washed up on the beach on the 7th August, 1908, proved 

 sufficient for identification. Another bird, too much damaged for preser- 

 vation, had been noted on the 25th July. However, it had already been 

 added to the Kermadec avifaunal list by Ogilvie Grant, whose specimen, 

 which I have examined, also proves to be a washed-up bird. It belongs 

 to the New Zealand race, so that I do not doubt Oliver's bird is also 

 referable to that form. The typical subspecies inhabits the Cape seas, 

 whilst Mathews (Birds Austr., vol. 2, p. 139, 1912) has described a west- 

 Australian-breediiig race as P. m. albani. 



Pterodroma externa cervicaHs (S^-lvin). 



Oeslrelata cervicalis Salvin, Ibis, 1891, p. 192 : Kermadec Island. 



Oestrelata sp. Cheeseman, loc. cit., p. 224. 0. cervicalis BuUer, 



loc. cit., p. 114. 



A beautiful bird, which appeared to be decreasing in numbers through 



the ravages of cats, only a few small scattered colonies now being known. 



Its closest relative breeds on Juan Fernandez Island, where also a very 



close ally of P. neglecta is recorded as breeding. 



Diomedea exulans rothschildi Mathews. 



Diomedea exulans rothschildi Mathews, Birds Austr., vol. 2, jo. 246, 

 1912 : Australian seas. D. exulans Cheeseman, loc. cit., p.. 224 ; 

 BuUer, loc. cit., p. 128. 

 A specimen which had been washed up on the beach at Denham Bay 

 previous to our arrival is the basis of this record. At the place quoted 

 Mathews has given a good history of this bird and of the allied species com- 

 monly known under the name of Diomedea regia Buller, but which must 

 bear the older name of B. epomophora Lesson. 



Onychoprion fuscatus serratus (Wagler). 



Sterna serrata Wagler, Naturl. Syst. Amphib., p. 89, note, 1830 : 



New Caledonia. S. fuliginosa Cheeseman, loc. cit., p. 221 ; Buller, 



loc. cit., p. 159. 

 Bred abundantly on Denham Bay beach, and sparingly oa the rocks 

 off the north-west corner and on Meyer Island. The rejection of the well- 

 known specific name of fuliginosa Gmelin is unavoidable, as Linne had pre- 

 viously named a young bird from the Island of Domingo, West Indies, 

 Sterna fuscata. This was founded on the Sterna fusca of Brisson (a post- 

 Linnean (1758) non-binomial writer), and Brisson's description and figure 

 are admirable and unmistakable to one who has seen the young, as I have. 

 The South Pacific birds are easily separable from typical birds, and the name 

 to be used is the one I have given. 



