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blackish-brown, and longitudinally striped with the same color; 

 tail, dark ash, crossed with eight bars of very pale rufous- 

 white ; under surface lighter, but more distinctly striped and 

 barred than the back ; wings, brown, with bars of pale rufous 

 and grey ; legs, greyish- white, with pale rufous bars ; bill, dark 

 horn color at the base, and white at the end ; an orange-colored 

 spot on the under part of the lower mandible near the tip ; ruff, 

 whitish, with dark brown tips ; under tail coverts greyish-white, 

 striped and barred with pale brown ; claws, horn color, lighter 

 at the base. 



Total length of skin, 9 inches ; wing from flexure, 6 J inches ; 

 tarsus, H inch ; tail, Si inches. 



Habitat. — California; procured near Sacramento by E. S. 

 Holden, Esq. 



2. Puffinus ? Procellaria hcesitata Kuhl. Gould B. 



of Austr. vii. pi. 47. 



The specimen of Puffinus herein described is precisely like one 

 in the collection of the Acad, of Nat. Science, Phil., which is 

 said to be the original bird described and figured by Gould in 

 his Birds of Australia, referred to at the head of this article. 



In the Zoologist for Dec, 1852, an account is given of the 

 capture of a Petrel in England, which, upon investigation, was 

 decided to be the Proc. hcesitata of Kuhl, and different from 

 the bird so named by Temminck, of which a figure is given in 

 the Planches coloriees, pi. 416. 



It is stated in the Zoologist, that four different species of 

 Petrels have been named Proc. hcesitata by different authors, 

 for a full explanation of which, see the article alluded to. 



My specimen does not resemble the Proc. hcesitata Kuhl, as 

 established in the Zoologist, nor the one figured by Temm. 

 under the same name ; besides, it is generically different, being 

 a Puffinus. 



Mr. Gould states in his description, that it is very similar to 

 P. cinereus Gmelin, to which species Mr. Goulds bird is also 



