28 A MANUAL OF THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Neonectris tenwirostris hulli Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 82, May 25th, 
1916: Barrier Reef, Queensland. 
DisrrRrBuTION.—Eastern and Southern Australian Seas. 
Adult male—Upper-surface sooty-black, including the head, entire back, 
wings, and tail, with pale margins to some of the feathers ; primary-quills pale 
brown on the inner webs ; secondaries inclining to hoary-grey, the whole of the 
under-surface sooty-brown, somewhat paler on the throat, and darker on the under 
tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts sooty-brown, becoming ash-brown on the greater 
series ; bill dark slate, tarsus slate, eyes brown. Total length 390; culmen (exp.) 
32, wing 280, tail 82, tarsus 52 mm. 
Adult female—Similar to the adult male. 
Immature-—Coloration similar; bill dark horn colour, tip light horn; iris 
dark brown; legs and feet slate and flesh in usual pattern. 
Nestling —Covered with brown down, paler on the under-surface. 
Nest.—At the end of a burrow, which is sometimes 4 feet long. 
Egg—Clutch, one; pure white, minutely pitted; axis 67-71 mm., diameter 
45-46. 
Breeding-season—The end of November and December. 
Incubation-period—Hight weeks. 
Distribution and forms.—Australian and Japanese seas as far as yet known, 
but one specimen examined from Persian Gulf. Five subspecies named, but 
probably only two valid, as NV. t. tenuirostris (Temm. and Laug.) from Japanese seas, 
and N. t. brevicaudus (Gould) from East Australian seas with a differently coloured 
bill, dark slate, the former having a horn bill; and the inner wing coloration, sooty 
instead of ashy. The other named forms, given in the synonymy above, require 
confirmation by study of large series. 
Genus HEMIPUFFINUS. 
Hemipuffinus Iredale, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 1, p. 20, Aug. 2nd, 1913. Type (by 
monotypy): Puffinus carnetpes Gould, 
Large Puffinine Petrels with long, stout bill, long wings, medium tail and large 
legs and feet. 
The bill is long, strongly hooked, with somewhat prominent rasal tubes, the 
laterals basally expanded. The nostrils are separated by a thick septum, and have 
their openings semi-vertical.. The under mandible has the rami strong and little 
divergent, the unguis powerful. The wings are long with the first primary longest, 
and the secondaries comparatively long. The tail is weakly wedge shaped, about 
one-third the length of the wing and twice the length of the tarsus ; the under tail- 
coverts reach to its end. The legs are long, the tarsus laterally compressed and 
covered with reticulate scales. The toes are very long, the outer longest, but little 
exceeding the middle toe which is longer than the inner which is a little shorter 
than the tarsus. The anterior toes are fully webbed with long narrow acute claws. 
The hind-toe is minute. 
Coloration wholly dark. 
19. Hemipuffinus carneipes. FLESH Y-FOOTED SHEARWATER. 
Gould, Vol. VIL., pl. 57 (pt. xxxv.), Dec. Ist, 1848. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 1, pl. 76, May 30th, 
1912. 
Puffinus carneipes Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 365, May Ist, 1844: near 
Cape Leeuwin, West Australia. 
DisTRIBUTION.—West and South Australian Seas. 
Adult male.—General colour above sooty-black, somewhat darker on the head ; 
the feathers of the back, scapulars, and wings with pale brown margins ; quills 
