52 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
SusBraMILy PUFFININAS. SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS. 
GENUS PUFFINUS Brisson. 
Puffinus Brisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 130. Type, by tautonymy, [Puffinus] 
pufinus Brisson = Procellaria puffinus BRUNNICH. 
Piffinus borealis Cory. Cory’s Shearwater. [88.] 
Puffinus borealis Cory, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VI, Jan., 1881, 84. (Near 
Chatham Island, Cape Cod, Mass.) 
RancE.— Known only from off coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode 
Island, and Long Island (August to November). 
Puffinus gravis (O’RrILiy). Greater Shearwater. [89.] 
Procellaria gravis O’Reinuty, Greenland, Adjacent Seas, etc., 1818, 140, 
pl. 12, fig. 1. (Cape Farewell and Staten Hook to Newfoundland.) 
RancE.— Atlantic Ocean, from Arctic Circle south to Cape Horn 
and Cape of Good Hope; occurs off the eastern coast of North Amer- 
ica from June to November. 
[Puffinus piffinus (BriinNicH). Manx Shearwater. [90.] 
Procellaria puffinus BrinnicH, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 29. (Faroe Islands 
and Norway.) 
RancE.— North Atlantic, chiefly on eastern side, south to coast of 
Brazil; accidental in Greenland.] 
Puffinus credtopus Cours. Pink-footed Shearwater. [91.] 
Puffinus creatopus Cours, Proce. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 131. (San 
Nicolas Island, California.) 
RanGcE.— Eastern Pacific Ocean, from Farallon Islands, California, 
south to Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile. 
Puffinus lherminiéri Lesson. Audubon’s Shearwater. [92.] 
Puffinus lherminicri Lesson, Revue Zool., II, 1839, 102. (“Ad ripas 
Antillarum.’’) 
