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RANGE. Warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean. Breeds in 

 Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Lesser Antilles; north casually from 

 Florida to Long Island, and also in the Greater Antilles. 



[Puffinus assimilis GOULD. Allied Shearwater. [92.1.] 



Puffinus assimilis GOULD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837 (1838), 156. 

 (New South Wales.) 



RANGE. Australian and New Zealand seas, and northward in 

 Atlantic Ocean to Madeira Islands; accidental on Sable Island, 

 Nova Scotia.] 



Puffinus opisthomelas COUES. Black-vented Shearwater. [93.] 



Puffinus opisthomelas COUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 139. 

 (Cape San Lucas, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Pacific Ocean. Breeds on islands off the coast of Lower 

 California and western Mexico; in migration abundant on the coast 

 of California; casual north to Vancouver Island. 



Puffinus auricularis C. H. TOWNSEND. Townsend's Shearwater. 

 [93.1.] 



Puffinus auricularis TOWNSEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, 1890, 133. 

 (Clarion Island, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Clarion Island, north to Cape San Lucas, Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



Puffinus griseus (GMELIN). Sooty Shearwater. [95.] 



Procellaria grisea GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 564. (Southern Hemi- 

 sphere, from 35-50 S. lat.) 



RANGE. Oceans of Southern Hemisphere; occurs in summer on 

 the Pacific coast from southern Alaska to Lower California, and on 

 the Atlantic coast from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to South Carolina; 

 accidental in Alabama; probably breeds hi the South Pacific. 



Puffinus tenuirostris (TEMMINCK). Slender-billed Shearwater. [96.] 



Procellaria tenuirostris TEMMINCK, Planches Col., V, 1835, text to pi. 587. 

 (Seas north of Japan, and coast of Korea.) 



