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iibmulant of? the coast of Newfouiullaiul, but to be imiph more rare on the opposite 

 shores of Europe. Dekay, in his Report on the IJirds of New York, mentions this 

 bird as having been occasionally ciiptured on the coast of New York, and speaks of 

 it as occurring from the Gulf of Alexico to Newfoundland. Degland and Gerbe assign 

 to it the same habitat, and regard its appearance on the European coast as purely 

 accidental, and as limited chiefly to the coast of the Uritish Islands. It has been 

 several times observed (jff the coast of Normandy, in the neighborhood of Dieppe. 



liy some writers the Fuliginous Shearwater has been regarded as only an inuuatnro 

 form of Pufffnus major. The accounts of its capture indicate that it is more abundant 

 on the eastern coast of England than on the southern or western. 



Captain Feilden informed Mr. Dresser that he observed this species, in company 

 with J'ltffinus major, sixty miles south of Cape Farewell on the U2d of June, 187"), 

 and was informed that it was common off the coast of Labrador. It is abundant 

 in the Bay of Fundy and oft' the coast of Nova Scotia and New ]>runswick. It has 

 been found in the Atlantic as far south as the Cape of Good Hope, Avliere Mr. Smith 

 states it to be common. 



Pu£Bniis griseus. 



THE DABK-BODI£D SHEABWATEB. 



Procellaria grisea, Omel. S. N. I. 1788, 504 (ncc Kriii,, 1820). 



Puffinniignmis, Finscii, J. f. 0. 1874, 209. — Salvis, Kowlcy's Om. Misc. IV. 1870, 236. — Uinc.w. 



Noiii. N. Am. 15. 1881, no. 715. 

 "Prncclliirla/ri.i/is, .1. U. Fokst. Dcsrr. Aiiim. 1844, 23" (.Sai.vix). — Hi'tton, Iliis, 1872, 83. 

 Xcc/ris nwatirosonui, CouKs, Pr. Ac. Nat. Si:i. Pliilud. Apiil, 1804, 124 (Oii[K' .St. Luciis). 

 Piij/bius amaurosoiiiti, Ouay, IhiiiiU. III. 1871, Hl2. — TouEs, Kej-, 1872, 332 ; Check List, 1873, 



no. 603 ; cd. 2, 1882, no. 838. 

 Keiirisfiiligiiwsii.i, a. chikusis, 15nsAi>. Consp. II. 1856, 202. 

 " Ptiffinus chilensis, Pit. & LanI)U."1 

 Gray Pdrcl, Lath. Synop. III. pt. 2, p. 399. 



TIab. Coast ol' Lower Californiii (Cape St. Lucas) ; thence to the South Pacific (New Zealand, 

 etc.). 



Si*. C'hau. Adult: Above, uniform fuliginous-dusky, tiic tips of some of the f'eatiiers indis- 

 tinctly li;,diter ; lower surface much paler, or smoky grayisJi ; lining of the wing grayish white, 

 niiittlcd with smoky gray. Bill dusky grayish brown, sometimes tinged with grayish white ; legs 

 and I'cct Ijrownish (rethlish in life >.).^ 



Wing, 1I.1.")-11.50 inches; culnien, 1.55-1.65; depth of bill through base, .45-.55 ; tarsus, 

 2.12-2.25; middle toe, 2.0.5-2.25. 



Having conii)are(l the type of Nedris umnnrnsnmn, CouES, and a Chilian examjile of what is 

 uiii|Uestionably the same species, with specimens of the Atlantic P. Stricldandi, Noms (P.fiduji- 

 ?io,<i(s, AucT., nee Kuhl, nee Gmei..), we can see no reason for uniting tliem ; on the otiier hand, 

 tln'v appear to be very distinct. Furthermore, the Pacific s])ecimens correspond very e.\actly with 

 Liitiiiuu's description of his " Grey Petrel,' upon which the Pror.ellnria (jrisea of Gmelin is based. 



/'. (/rise »s is smaller in all its measurements than P. Stricldandi; has the under wing-coverts 

 wliitc, faintly mottled witli pale gray, and with very distinct .shaft-streaks of darker gray ; while in 

 P. Stricldandi these feathers are smoky griiy, mottled with white (the latter, however, prevailing 

 nu;u' the bend of the win},'), and without conspicuous dark shaft-streaks. In P. griseus the chin 

 and upper part of throat are lighter gray than in P. Stricklandi. 



' On labels of specimens in Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., fi-om Museo Nncional of Chili. 



" According to Captain F. W. Hutton (" Ibis," .Tanuary, 1872, p. 83), tlic fresh colors are as follows : 

 "Tlio bill is bluish white, passing into black on the culmen and gouys ; feet and li'gs bluish wliite ; in the 

 young birds the bill, legs, and feet arc brownish black." 



