Notes on the Procellariidse. 355 



we purchased some time ago from Mr. "Wliitely of Woolwich, 

 who stated that he had received it from New Zealand. 



tPuFFINUS GRISEUS. 



Nedris fuUginosa, Solander, MS. ; Parkinson, Icon. ined. 

 No. 23 (nee Puffinus fuliginosus, Kuhl). 



Procellaria fuliginosa, G. Forst. Icon. ined. No. 94. 



Grey Petrel, Lath. Gen. Syn, vi. p. 399. 



Procellaria grisea, Gm. Syst. Nat, i. p. 564 (nee Kuhl) . 



Puffinus griseus, Finsch, J. f. Orn. 1874, p. 209 ; Salv. in 

 Rowley's Orn. Misc. i. p. 236 ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. pi. 616. 



Puffinus fuliginosus, A. Strickl. (mot. propr. !), P. Z. S. 

 1832, p. 129. 



Piiffinus tristis, J. R. Forst. Descr. An. p. 23; Buller, B. 

 N. Zeal. p. 315. 



Puffinus ammirosoma, Coues, Pr, Ac. Nat, vSc. Phil. 1864, 

 p. 124. 



Puffinus strichlandi, Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 61. 



There is now a large series of skins of this bird in the British 

 Museum ; and I have taken tlie opportunity of comparing 

 birds from the North Atlantic with others from the Pacific 

 Ocean, and have failed to see how two species can be set up 

 as proposed, by Mr. Ridgway. In his recently published 

 ' Manual ' it will be seen that dimensions do not afford any 

 diagnostic characters, and that the only difference to be 

 detected is that the under wing-coverts in the Atlantic bird 

 are grey, transversely mottled with white at the tips, whereas 

 in P. griseus they are white, transversely mottled with grey 

 at the tips. A comparison of specimens shows how trivial 

 this difference is. 



In the Pacific Ocean this species occurs as far north as the 

 Kurile Islands, whence specimens have been sent by Mr. H. 

 J. Snow. 



Puffinus carneipes. 



Pu-ffinus carneipes, Gould, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 57; id. Birds 

 Austr. vii. pi. 57 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 176 ; Ridgw. Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, p. 62. 



