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abundant off the coast of Newfoundland, but to be much more rare on the opposite 

 shores of Europe. Dekay, in his lieport on the Birds of Xew York, mentions this 

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

 it as occurring from the Gulf of Mexico 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 British Islands. It has been 

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



By some writers the Fuliginous Shearwater has been regarded as only an immature 

 form of Puffinus major. The accounts of its captm-e 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 Puffinus major, sixty miles south of Cape Farewell on the 22d of June, 1875, 

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

 in the Bay of Fundy and off the coast of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, It has 

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

 states it to be common. 



Puffinus griseus. 



THE DARK-BODIED SHEARWATER. 



Procellaria grisca, Gmel. S. N. I. 1788, 564 (nee Kuhl, 1820). 



Puffinus (jn'srAcs, FiNSCH, J. f. 0. 1874, 209. — Salvin, Rowley's Orn. Misc. IV. 1876, 236. — Ridgw. 



Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 715. 

 " Procellaria tristis, J. R. Forst. Descr. Anim. 1844, 23" (Salvin). — Hutton, Ibis, 1872, 83. 

 Ncctris amaurosoma, Coues, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. April, 1864, 124 (Cape St. Lucas). 

 Puffinus amaurosorna, Gray, Hundl. III. 1871, 102. —Coues, Key, 1872, 332; Check List, 1873, 



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

 Ncctris faliginosus, a. chihnsis, Bonap. Consp. II. 1856, 202. 

 " Puffinus chilcnsis, Ph. & Landb." ^ 

 Gray Petrel, Lath. Synop. TIL pt. 2, p. 399. 



Hab. Coast of Lower California (Cape St. Lucas) ; thence to the South Pacific (New Zealand, 

 etc.). 



Sp. Char. Adult : Above, uniform fuliginous-dusky, the tips of some of the feathers indis- 

 tinctly lighter ; lower surface much paler, or smoky grayish ; lining of the wing grayish white, 

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

 and feet brownish (reddish in life ?).2 



Wing, 11.15-11.50 inches; culmen, 1.55-1.65; depth of bill through base, .45-.55 ; tarsus, 

 2.12-2.25 ; middle toe, 2.05-2.25. 



Having compared the type of Nectris amaurosoma, CouES, and a Chilian example of what is 

 unquestionably the same species, with specimens of the Atlantic P. Stricldandi, Nobis (P. fuUgi- 

 nosus, AucT., nee Kuhl, nee Gmel.), we can see no reason for uniting them ; on the other hand, 

 they appear to be very distinct. Furthermore, the Pacific specimens correspond very e.xactly with 

 Latham's description of his " Grey Petrel,'' upon which the Procellaria grisea of Gmelin is based. 



P. griseus is smaller in all its measurements than P. Stricklandi ; lias the under wing-coverts 

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

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

 near the bend of the wing), 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., from Museo Nacional of Chili. 



2 According to Captain F. W. Hutton (" Ibis," January, 1872, p. 83), the fresh coloi-s are as follows : 

 "The bill is bluish white, passing into black on the cuhnen and gonys ; feet and legs bluish white ; in the 

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



