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species of the genus Puffinus in Buller^s ' Supplement/ vol. i. 

 pp. 99-105, are in hopeless confusion, and no reliance can be 

 placed upon them as being referable to the species they are 

 recorded against. 



PuflBnus assiniilis kempi Mathews. Chatham Islands' Allied 

 Petrel. 



Puffinus assimilis kempi Matliews, Birds Austr. vol. ii. 1912, 

 p. 69 : Chatham Islands. 



Range: — Chatham Islands (breeding). 



Puffinus buUeri Salvin. Ashy-lmcked Wedge-tailed Petrel. 



Pufflnus buUeri Salvin, Ibis, 1888, p. 35-t : New Zealand. 



Synonyms : — 



Puffinus zeakmdicus Sandager, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. xxii. 



1890, p. 291 : Mokoliinou Island. 

 Puffinus buUeri JywWev, Suppl. vol. i. p. 101. 



Kange : — New Zealand Seas. Breeding-place unknown. 



Puffinus pacificus pacificus (Gmelin) . Kermadec Wedge-tailed 

 Petrel. 

 Procellaria pacifica Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 560 : 

 Pacific Ocean, breeding at Kermadec Islands. 



Synonyms : — 



Puffinus chlororhynchus iredali Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 



vol. xxvii. 1910, p. 40 : Kermadec Islands. 

 Puffinus chlororhynchus Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 105. 



Range : — Kermadec Islands (breeding). 

 Note :— Mathews (Birds Austr. vol. ii. 1912, p. 79) has 

 given full particulars regarding this synonymy. 



Puffinus griseus griseus (Gmelin). Sombre Petrel or Muttou- 

 Bird. 



Procellaria yrisea Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 564: New 

 Zealand. 



Synonyms : — 



Procellaria tristis Forster, Uescr. Aniui. ed. Licht. 1844, p. 205: 



New Zealand. 

 Puffinus griseus Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 102. 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding), probably not in North 



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