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and being shorter than the culmen ; the hind-toe insignificant, and the tarsal covering 

 reticulate scaling. 



Coloration bicolour, grey -brown above, white below with a white head streaked 

 with slate-brown. 



Calonectris leucomelas. WHITE-FRONTED SHEARWATER. 



Procellaria leucomelas Temminck, Plan. Color. d'Ois., Vol. V., liv. 99', pi. 587, 1835: seas 

 of Japan. 



Godman, Mono. Petrels, pi. 21, pt. 2, March 1908. 

 DISTRIBUTION. Cape York (?) and seas northward to Japan. 



Adult male. Mantle, back and scapulars brown, with pale edges and white 

 bases to the feathers ; wing -coverts blackish -brown, greater coverts and secondary - 

 quills margined with white on the outer webs towards the tips ; bastard-wing, 

 primary -coverts, and quills blackish, the latter white on the inner webs at the base ; 

 upper tail-coverts ash-brown edged with white ; tail-feathers dark brown ; crown 

 of head slate-brown with numerous white feathers intermixed ; hind -neck darker 

 and inclining to sooty -brown ; fore-head, sides of face, and sides of throat brown, 

 with white margins to the feathers, imparting a streaked appearance ; throat and 

 under-surface of body, including the axillaries and under tail-coverts, white ; under 

 wing-coverts white, with dark shaft-streaks, some of the outer greater coverts ash- 

 grey fringed with white ; bill horn colour ; feet flesh colour, the outer toe a little 

 darker (in dried skin). Total length 465 mm. ; culmen (exp.) 53, wing 307, tail 146, 

 tarsus 50. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 



Nest and Eggs. Undescribed. 



Distribution and forms. Japanese Seas only, straggling as far south as New 

 Guinea.] 



Genus RE INK OLD I A. 



Reinholdia Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 107, Dec. 24th, 1912. Type (by 

 original designation) : Puffinus reinholdi Mathews. 



Cinathisma Hull, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 205, Jan. 1916 (ex Bull. No. 5 R.A.O.U. 21/12/15. 

 Unpublished). Type (by original designation) : C. cyaneoleuca Hull = R. reinholdi byroni 



Mathews. 



Small Puffinine Petrels with long bills, long wings, short tail and long legs and 

 feet. The bill is very long and slender, typically Puffinoid, the wings are long with 

 first primary longest, but the tail is very short with a rounded appearance, and less 

 than one-third the length of the wing. The bill characters are seen in the nestling 

 which has a long bill with a weak nail. Other characters as in Puffinus. 



Coloration bicolour. 



15. Reinholdia reinholdi. -FLUTTERING SHEARWATER. 



[Puffinus reinholdi reinholdi Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pt. 1, p. 74, May 30th, 1912 : 

 New Zealand. Extra -limital.] 



Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 1, pi. 74, May 30th, 1912. Extra-limital specimen. Vol. VII., pt. 5, 

 pi. 367, July 10th, 1919. Australian specimen. 



Reinholdi reinholdi byroni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 187, March 20th, 



1913 : (Byron Bay, New South Wales error =) Five Islands, south of Woollongong, New 



South Wales. 



Cinathisma cyaneoleuca Hull, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 205, Jan. 1916 (ex Bull No. 5 R.A.O.U., 



Dec. 21st, 1915. Unpublished): Murramurang or Brush Island, off Ulladulla, New South 



Wales. 



DISTRIBUTION. Seas of New South Wales and Victoria. 



