228 Messrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Island ; ? Chatham Islands ; ? Auckland Islands ; ? Snares. 

 The exact distribution needs working out. 



Puffinns carneipes carbonarius Mathews. New Zealand Flesh- 

 footed Petrel. 

 Puffinus carneipes carbonarius ]\Iatliews, Birds Austr. 

 vol. ii. 1912, pp. 90-91 : off Three Kings, North Island. 



Synonym : — 



Puffinus carneipes BuUer, Suppl. vol. i. p. 103. [The type-locality 

 of Piiffinus carneipes Gould, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xiii. 

 1844, p. 365, is south-western Australia.] 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding) ; ? Nortb Island only. 



Puffinus tenuirostris brevicauda Gould. Short-tailed Petrel. 



Puffinus brevicaudus Gould, Birds Austr. vol. vii. 1847, 

 pi. 56 : Green Island, Bass's Straits. 



Synonym : — 



? Puffinus te7iuirostris Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 104. [The type- 

 locality of ProceUaria tenuirostris Temminck & Laugier, Planch. 

 Color. d'Ois. 99° livr. 1836, pi. 58, is Japanese Seas.] 



Range ; — New Zealand Seas (accidental occurrences) ; 

 Southern Australia (breeding). 



Note : — It is very doubtful whether this species has 

 occurred in New Zealand waters. Buller's notes in the 

 ' Supplement ' do not refer to this bird, but Hutton's record 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 749) of a washed-up Kermadec 

 specimen may belong here. No authentic record of its 

 breeding in New Zealand is to be found. 



In the Suppl. vol. i. p. 100 is included Puffinus obscurus. 

 One of us (Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. ii. 1912, pp. 62 & 73) 

 has dealt with the specimen upon which the entry is based 

 and has suggested, that there may be a breeding-form of 

 Puffinus Iherminieri in New Zealand, but no specimens are at 

 hand and the history of the supposed New Zealand bird, is 

 unreliable. We are, therefore, compelled to omit it, but 

 would again draw attention to the need of investigating 

 the breeding-colonies of the ' black and white ' Shearwaters 

 around New Zealand. 



