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Genus PUFF'INUS Brisson. 



a. Lower parts uniform dusky black (wing never over 10.00); bill deep black; 

 "under wing coverts deep sooty black (darker); primaries and tail feathers black. 

 Length about 15.00, wing 9.10, tail 3.75, culmen 2.25, tarsus 1.70, middle toe 2.00. 

 Hab. Central Pacific Ocean. French Frigates, Laysan. 



PI. XIX., 7942. 17. P. nativita'tis vStreets. Christmas Island Shearwater. 



aa. Lower parts uniform white including auxiliaries and the central under tail 



^coverts; primaries dark beneath; head, neck and back, including wings and tail, a 



verj- uniform black ; the edge of the feathers sometimes brownish; flanks and outer 



•under tail coverts blackish ; border of under wing coverts blackish. Length 14.60, wing 



9.25, culmen 1.30, tail 3.45, tarsus 1.80, toe 2.20, depth of bill at base .50. Hah. Kauai. 



PI, XIX., 9307. 18. P. new'elli" Henshaw. 



Genus OCEANO'DROMA Reichenb.vch. 



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feathers white except the centre pair ( tail not deeply forked ; longer of the upper tail 



coverts tipped with black. Length about 8.75, wing 5.90, tail 2.75, tarsus .82, middle 



itoe .95, tibia 1.60, culmen .58." Hab. Central Pacific Ocean. Kauai, French Frigates, 



Niihau(?). 



19. O. cryptoleucu'ra.' Hawaiian Storm Petrel, Oeoe. 



Order STEGANOPODES.-Totipalmate Swimmers. 



Families. 



a. Tail cuneate (or rounded); web between the toes only slightly emarginate; 

 no terminal hook to the bill." 



b. Middle tail feathers greatly elongated ; whole head feathered ; bill con- 

 ical, compressed and pointed; nostrils plainly visible. . (Page 14.) Phaethon'tidse. 



"The description is taken from a specimen given to the Musenm by Mr. Francis Gay, April 17, 1900 (B. P. B. M. No. 9507). During the 

 interval between the writing and the publication of the description Mr. Henshaw has described a specimen taken by Mr. M. Newell (Brother 

 Matthias), which seems to be the same as the Kauai specimen in the Museum. I therefore withdraw my manuscript name (with due apology 

 to Mr. Gay) in favor of Mr. Henshaw's piiblnhed name. See .\uk (1900), Vol. XVII., p. 246. The locality of Mr, Henshaw's type is at fault. 

 It doubtless is a misprint and should be Waihu Valley. Island of Maui, in the place of "Waihu Valley, Island of Mani." 



9 Female in the colle(5fion taken by Mr. \. F. Judd on Kauai during the winter of 1.S92-93. from which the above measurements 

 were taken. 



"=Dr. Schauinsland. in his list of the birds of I.aysan Island, adds O. fnliginoia (Gm) to the Hawaiian fauna. It Can be easily dis- 

 tinguished from (». ciytiiolenciira by its larger .size (length .10, wing 7 50) and having the upper tail coverts the same color as the back. 



■' Since the preparation of the above I have a list of the birds obtained on Laysan by Dr. Schauinsland, Dire(5lor Stiidt. Museum, Bremen, 

 in which he gives Phalaciocovax plagicin.YaW. The species may be identified by the following': The upper mandible terminating in a dis- 

 tinct hook ; /anus /oiig<r l/iaii th,- lihid toe atid fta-.c: with a small, scarcely noticeable gular sac ; bill slender with outline straight ; tail nmch 

 longer than the wing, graduated and composed of twelve feathers ; culmen less than 2.50 ; feathers on the lower jaw projecting forw^ard be- 

 yond the anterior angle of the eye ; head and neck rich glossy silky violet black : more purplish towards the head, becoming , silky dark 

 green on the lower parts. Bircding plumage: Neck and rump ornamented with very narrow white feathers. Young: Uniform brownish 

 dusky. Length 25.00-29,00, wing 9.50-10.60. Hab. Coast of Asia from Kamschatka to South China, from Alaska to South Mexico(?). (Hawaiian 

 Islands, Lavsan. — Dt . Seliauitulaud.) 



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