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Synonym : — 



Fregetta melanof/aster Buller, Sup])l. vol. i. p. 99. [The type- 

 locality of Tlialassidroma tropica Gould. Aunals Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. vol. iii. 1844, p. 306, is Equatorial Atlantic Ocean.] 



Range: — New Zealand Seas; Australian Seas and South 

 Indian Ocean. 



Note : — The breedin<i-place of the New Zealand form is 

 yet unknown, though probably the Chatliani Islands {cf. 

 Buller, Birds New Zeal. 1873, p. 319) harbours a subspecies 

 quite distinct from the South Indian Ocean bird (Mathews, 

 Birds Austr. vol. ii. 1912, p. 36). 



family PROCELLAIUID.E. 



Genus REIXIIOLDIA. 



Reinholdia, Matliews, Austral Avian Kecord, vol. i. 1912, 

 p. 107. 



Type (by original designation): R. reialioldi (Matliews). 



Reiinlioldia reinholdi reinholdi (Mathews). Brown-backed 

 Petrel. 

 Puffiiius reinholdi reialioldi ^Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. ii. 

 1912, p. 7-1: New Zealand (liauraki Gulf). 



Synonym : — 



Pujfinus (javia Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 99. 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding) ; New South Wales 

 (twice). 



Note : — Much confusion exists regarding the distribution 

 of this bird. Reischek (Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. xviii. 

 1886, p. 94) gives an account of a bird breeding on Hauturu 

 Island, while Sandager [op. cit., vol. xxii. 1890, p. 289) 

 records rather different habits for the same (?) bird breeding 

 on the Mokohinou Islands ; finally Buller wrote in the 

 Supplement " We have at length discovered the breeding- 

 phice of this species, viz. Stephen's Island, Cook's Straits,'' 

 and then on p. lOi records this same Stephen's Island breeding 

 bird under the name Pvffinus teniiirostris (Bonaparte's 

 Shearwater) ; this must be absolutely wrong. 



