iSSS.] Cory o/t the Birds of the West Indies. 8 I 



Genus iEstrelata Bp. 

 ^strelata Bonaparte. Consp. Avium, II, p, i8S, 1856. 



iEstrelata jamaicensis (Bancr. )• 



Procellayia Jamaicensis Bancr. ZooI. Journ. V, p. Si (182S). 



'■'CEstrelata caribcBa AuCT." 



Blue Mountain Duck Gosse. Bds. Jam. p. 437 (1847). 



Pterodroma carihbcBa Carte, P. Z. S. 1S66, p. 93, pi. X. 



Petrodroma caribbceus Gray, Handl. Bds. Ill, p. 107 (1871). 



CEstrelafa Jajnaicensis A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (1881). — 



Bn. Bwr. & RiDGw. Hist. N. Am. \V. Bds. II. p. 394 (1884).— Cory. 



List. Bds. W. I. p. 34 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage dark sootv brown, paling slight] \- 

 on the chin, forehead and upper part of the back, joining the neck : 

 rump brownish black; upper tail-coverts dull white; quills and tail 

 brownish black; bill and feet black. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length, 14.00; wing, 11,00; tail, 4.75; tarsus, 1.40; bill, 1.25 to 

 1.50. 



Habitat. Jamaica. 



iEstrelata hasitata (Kuhl). 



Procellaria hasitata --Kuhl, Mon. Proc. Beitr. ZooI. p. 142, No. 11 (1820)." 

 .■* Procellaria diabolica L'Hermimer, MSS. — Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. 1879. p. 450 (Gaudeloupe). 

 CEstrclata hesitata Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. W. Bds. II, pp. 



394-395 (1S84) (Haiti;.— Cory. List Bds. W. I. p. 34 (18S5). 



It is probable that this bird is occasionally to be fouiKl in the 

 West Indies. One specimen, claimed to have been taken near 

 Haiti, is now in the British Mnseum. 



Genu.s Puffinus Briss. 

 Puffinus Brissox, Orn. VI, p. 131, 1760. 



Puffinus major Faber. 



Puffinus major Faber, Prodr. Isl. Orn. p. 56(1822). — Cory. Bds. Bahama 

 I. p. 21S (1880).—/^. List Bds. W. I. p. 34 (1S85). 



Recorded from the Bahama Islands. 



Puffinus auduboni Finscii. 



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Puffinus obscnrus Bryant. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, ]5. 132 (1S59) 

 (Bahamas).— Sex. P. Z. S. 1S79. P- 7^5 (Montserrat).— Cory, Bds. 



