52 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



SUBFAMILY PUFFININ2E. SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS. 

 GENUS PUFFINUS BRISSON. 



Puffinus BRISSON, On., VI, 1760, 130. Type, by tautonymy, [Puffinus] 

 puffinus BRISSON = Procellaria puffinus BRUNNICH. 



Puffinus bore alls CORY. Cory's Shearwater. [88.] 



Puffinus borealis CORY, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VI, Jan., 1881, 84. (Near 

 Chatham Island, Cape Cod, Mass.) 



RANGE. Known only from off coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island, and Long Island (August to November). 



Puffinus gravis (O'REILLY). Greater Shearwater. [89.] 



Procellaria gravis O'REILLY, Greenland, Adjacent Seas, etc., 1818, 140, 

 pi. 12, fig. 1. (Cape Farewell and Staten Hook to Newfoundland.) 



RANGE. Atlantic Ocean, from Arctic Circle south to Cape Horn 

 and Cape of Good Hope; occurs off the eastern coast of North Amer- 

 ica from June to November. 



[Puffinus puffinus (BRUNNICH). Manx Shearwater. [90.] 



Procellaria puffinus BRUNNICH, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 29. (Faroe Islands 

 and Norway.) 



RANGE. North Atlantic, chiefly on eastern side, south to coast of 

 Brazil; accidental in Greenland.] 



Puffinus creatopus COUES. Pink-footed Shearwater. [91.] 



Puffinus creatopus COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 131. (San 

 Nicolas Island, California.) 



RANGE. Eastern Pacific Ocean, from Farallon Islands, California, 

 south to Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile. 



Puffinus Iherminieri LESSON. Audubon's Shearwater. [92.] 



Puffinus Iherminieri LESSON, Revue Zool., II, 1839, 102. ("Ad ripas 

 Antillarum.") 



