226 Messrs. G. ^L Mathews and Tom Iredule : 



Reinholdia reinlioldi huttoni (Mathews). Suares Brown- 

 backed Petrel. 



PufHUS reinholdl huttoni Mathews, Birds Austr, vol. ii. 

 1912, p. 77 : Snares Island. 



Range :— Snares Island (breeding) : South Australia (one 

 occurrence). 



Genus PUFFINUS. 



Puffinus Cuvier, Regne Animal, vol. i. 1S16, p. 516. 

 Type (by tautonymy) : P.jiuffinus (Briinnich). 



Puffinus assimilis assimilis Gould. Allied Petrel. 



Pi/ffinus osshnilis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. iv. 1838, 



App. p. 7 : Norfolk Island. 



Synonyuis : — 



Puffinus affinis Peuuy Cyclopedia, vol. xviii. 1840, p, 42, Error 



for P. assimilis. 

 Puffinus uustralis Gould, Birds Austr. vol. vii. lcS48, text to pi. 59 : 



Norfolk Island. 

 Puffinus assimilis Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 100 (part only). 



Range : — Kermadec Islands (breeding) ; Norfolk Island 

 (breeding) ; Lord Howe Island (breeding). 



Puffinus assimilis gavia (Forster). New Zealand Allied 

 Petrel. 

 Procelluria gavia Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. Licht. 1841, 

 p. 148: Queen Charlotte's Sound, South Island. 



Synonym : — 



Puffinus assimilis Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 100 (in part). 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding). 



Note: — One of us (Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. ii. 1912, 

 pp. 50-77) has gone carefully into the matter of the "black 

 and white '^ Shearwaters, and. has clearly shown the misappli- 

 cation of Forster's name. When Hutton (Cat. Birds New 

 Zeal. 1871, pp. 45 & 79) first utilised it, he had no 

 knowledge that a form of P. assimilis inhabited New 

 Zealand, and the misapplication has been continuous, even 

 wdien specimens of the latter species were obtained at the 

 type locality of Forster's species. The notes under the 



