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CHECK LIST OF NOIiTII AMERICAN BIRDS. 



fSce Addenda, No. 888. 



831. PufRnus kuhli (Boie) Bp. B — . c 690. R 708. 



Cinereous Shearwater. 



832. Puffinus major Fabcr. n 047. c 697. u 709. 



Greater Shearwater. 



833. Puffinus creatopus Coop, b — . c 698. R 7io. 



Flesh-footed Shcarvvutcr. 



834. Puffinus anglorum Tt-mm. B C49. c 599. R711. 



Mauks Shearwater. 



835. Puffinus obscurus (Gni.) V. b C50. c coo. r 712. 



Dusky Shearwater. 



836. Puffinus opisthomelas Coues. b — . c 601. R 713. 



Black-vented Shearwater. 



837. Puffinus fuliginosus A. Strickl. B648. c 602. R714. 



Sooty Shearwater. 



831. PQf'-fTn-Qs kuhl'-i. Two very different kinds of birds early received tlic name of pvffein 

 or pitj)iii: one of these, tl>e Friitfiritlu arctica, lias retained it in Enjiiisli, in place of the 

 old Knglisii cotiltcrncb (" plouglishare-nose "), which soon gave way; the French now 

 call it mm-tmiix. The other, namely, the shearwater, soon lost the name of pajfiii ; but 

 meanwhile /»(///» had been taken into the books, and, at the pen of those who wrote 

 their treatises in Latin, became pntliniis or pujiliinus ; and this was subsequently fixed 

 as a generic term for the Shearwater Petrels. We do not know the exact meaning of the 

 word, but suppose it has something to do with puff, as suggested by the stout, " puffy " 

 shape of the bodies of the Auks, as if puffed up. — Th^ sjjecies is dedicated to Dr. Ilein- 

 rich Kuhl, whose early death left much promise unfulfilled. 



833. P. m5'-j8r. Lat. major, greater, comparative degree of moijinis, great. 



833. P. cr6-at'-6-pQs. Gr. Kptas, genitive Kptaros. flesh, and irovs, foot ; in allusion to the 



color of the feet. AVe see the same stem in the anatomical term pan-aras, " all-flesh." 



834. P. an-glo'-rQm. " Pujjfimis amjlornm " is a curiosity. It simply says in Latin " the puffin 



of the Kngllsh," just as one might cite rnjliiiiis Jmis/oni, the puffin of Jonston's treatise. 

 Willughby, edited in Latin in KiTO, called it " Puffinus Anglorum," meaning only that it 

 was the bird " called puffin in Knglish"; and Temniinck, in 18l!0, not unhappily made 

 the piirase generic and specific as the technical name of the bird. — '' Mcniks " or " Mini.i: " 

 is the name of the people and of their language, of the Isle of Man ; so " man.v shear- 

 water" is as if we were to say "the puffin of the Isle of Man." — " .Shearwater " is 

 defined by early ornithologists as "avis aqiue supcrjiciem rndens," — the bird that grazes, 

 skims, shaves, shears over the surface of the water ; rado, I shave, scrape ; the stem is 

 seen in erase, rnznr, &(r. See above, Piijjhius, No. 831. 



835 P. ob-scu'-rus. Lat. 'ohscurus, dark-colored. 



NoTi:. — There is doubt that the small dark shearwater of our South Atlantic coast 

 is the /'. ohsriirus of Gmelin, and Finsch has latel}' proposed fo call it P. aiididinni. But 

 until we have more light on this obscure group, we prefer not to disestablish several well- 

 settled names in this genus. See Kidg., Pr. Nat. Mus., ii, 1880, p. 12. 



836. P. 5-pis-th8'-m8-15s. Gr. iJirio-fle, backward, and /it\oi, black ; a Greek way of saying 



black behind. 



Note. — This is supposed by some to be Puffinus gavia (Forst.). 



837. P. fu-li-gln-o'-sfls. See Canace, No. 559. 



