Notes on the Procellariidse. 853 



description gives it as " reddish fleshy brown, darker on the 

 culmen and tip.'' 



We have two skins said to have come from New Zealand, 

 where its occurrence, at least on the shores of the North 

 Island, can hardly fail to be established. 



Both the following species belong to this section of Puffinus, 

 which may be distinguished by the long cuneate tails of all 

 its members. 



PUFFINUS CUNEATUS, Sp. UOV. 



Supra fuliginosus ; capite summo, dorso postico, tectricibus 

 alarum miuoribus et remigibus saturatioribus, plumis 

 dorsi antici pallide fuliginoso limbatis, tectricibus alarum 

 majoribus ad apices griseo tinctis : subtus medialiter 

 albidus; gulee et ccrvicis latcribus griseis, pectore et 

 hypochondriis quoque hujus col oris, ventre imo et 

 crisso omnino obscurioribus, tectricibus alarum infe- 

 rioribus albidis griseo vix irroratis, cauda cuneata nigra : 

 rostro obscure plumbeo, pedibus flavis extrorsum obscu- 

 rioribus : long, tota 17*0, alse 11"8, caudse rectr. med. 

 5'3, lat. 3'65, rostri a rictu 2*2, a naribus 1*2, culminis 

 nudi 1'6, tarsi 1'85, dig. med. cum ungue 2*32. 

 Hab. Insulis Krusenstern {H. J. Snow). 

 Mus. nostr. et H. Seebohm, nunc in Mus. Brit. 

 In general coloration this species reseoibles P. creatojms, 

 Cones, but it may be readily distinguished by its smaller 

 darker bill, smaller feet, and especially by its longer more 

 cuneate tail, the latter character placing it along with P. 

 chlororhynchus and P. bulleri, described below, in Gloger's 

 supposed genus or section '' Thiellus " (see Cones, Pr. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phil. 1864, p. 122)*. 



I have two specimens of this bird before me, both obtained 

 in the spring of 1883 by Mr. H. J. Snow, of Yokohamaf. 



* The name Thyellus was proposed by Gloger in Froriep's ' Notizen, 

 xvi. (1827) p. 279, simply as a substitute for Puffinus. Bonaparte 

 (Consp. Av, ii. p. 200) altered the spelling, and restricted it to this 

 section of Puffinus, and in so doing he was followed by Ooues. 



t The Krusenstern Islands here referred to are apparently the small 

 cluster of islands so named by Kotzebue, which form part of the Marshall 

 Group, and are situated in about lat. 10° 17' N., long. 190^ W. The 

 islands extend over an area of 15 miles long by 5 wide. The native name 



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