PUFFINUS 853 



12 -6, tail 5 '4, lateral feathers 1'6 shorter than the middle ones, tarsus T85 

 middle toe with claw 2 -5 inch. 



Hal. The seas of Japan and Corea, southwards to the 

 Philippines, N. Borneo, Moluccas, and the northern coast of 

 Australia. 



I find nothing on record respecting the habits or nidification 

 of this species. 



1173. FLESH-COLOURED SHEARWATER. 

 PUFFINUS CARNEIPES. 



Puffinus carneipes, Gould, P.Z.S. 1844, p. 57 ; id. B. of Austral, vii. 

 pi. 57 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 265 ; Salvin, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 xxv. p. 385 ; Ridgway, p. 62. 



ad. (Japan). Entire plumage dark sooty chocolate-brown, the 

 throat and under parts rather paler and greyer ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries sooty brown ; bill fleshy white, the culmen and tips of 

 mandibles brown ; legs, feet, and interdigital membranes yellowish 

 flesh-colour. Culmen 2 -3, wing 12 -8, tail 5'0, tarsus 2*2, middle toe with 

 claw 2-65 inch. 



Hob. The Australian and New Zealand seas, north to the 

 Japanese seas. 



Respecting the habits of this bird I find practically nothing 

 on record, but it doubtless does not differ from its allies. It 

 breeds on the small islands off Cape Leeuwin on the coast of 

 Australia, nesting in holes in the ground, and deposits a single 

 white egg, which measures about 2'93 by T98. 



1174. SLENDER-BILLED SHEARWATER. 

 PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS. 



Puffmus tenuirostris (Temm.), PI. Col. 587 (1835) ; (id.) and Schleg. 



Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 131, pi. 86 (1842) ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. 



p. 267 (1890) ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 1066 ; Salvin, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 



xxv. p. 338 ; Ridgway, p. 62 ; P. brevicaudus, Brandt, Icon. Russ. 



Av. Tab. vi. fig. 171 (1836) ; Gould, B. of Austral, vii. pi. 56. 



ad. (Japan). Differs from P. carneipes in having the upper parts 



paler with paler margins to the feathers ; under parts paler and more 



ashy in tinge ; the throat with a bluish tinge ; the breast and abdomen 



feathers with slightly paler margins ; under wing-coverts paler grey ; 



bill fleshy horn-colour ; tarsi and toes yellowish, outwardly darker. 



Culmen 2'3, from base of feathers 1*9, wing 12'5, tail 5'3, tarsus 2'5 inch. 



Hob. Pacific Ocean north to Kamchatka and Alaska ; the 

 Kurile Islands, Japan, and the coasts of Corea ; south to the 

 Australian and New Zealand seas. 



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