Birds of Celebes: Puffinidae. 913 



Adult. Like P. cuiieatKs, but the under surface sooty brown, not wliite, though paler than 



the upper parts. 

 Sexes. The sexes are similar in coloration (Salvin 12). 

 Egg. One; when fresh snow-wliite, varying much in size and shape, true ovals, lengthened 



and swollen ovals predominating; size 60 — 62 X 40 — 42 mm (North 7). 

 Nest. None. "Tliis bird digs out a hole in the soft soil on the faces of the cliffs, also in 



the sand on flat ground. Some of the burrows are six feet and more in length. 



The bird also lays extensively on Philip Island in shallow recesses under overhanging 



boulders and in colonies, i. e. many may be found close together. On Norfolk Island 



its holes are always isolated and the burrows deep" (Crowfoot a 5; see, also, E. 



Newton 2; Gould all; Graffe .3; North « 7). 

 Distribution. From Loango (3) over the Indian Ocean south to Tasmania, east across the 



Pacific as fai' as the Society Islands and New Zealand. 



7^ 390. PUFFINUS LEUCOMELAS (Temm.). 

 Streaked Shearwater. 



a. ProceUaria leucomelas (I) Temm., PL Col. 587 (1835); (2) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Proc, 1863,24. 



Puffinus leucomelas (1) Less., Compl. de Buff. Ois. 711 (1838); (II) Temm. &Schl., Faun. 

 Japon., Aves 1850, 131, pi. 85; (3) Coues, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1S64, 130, 144; (4) 

 Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 243, 252; (3) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 98; 

 (6) David & Oust, Ois. Chine 1877, 515; fZj Meyer, Ibis 1879, 144; ('SJ Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1881, 800; (9) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, Id, 461; (10) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 

 1883, 120, 121; (11) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 212; (12) Seek, B. Japan 

 1890, 264; (13) Salvad., Agg. Orn. Pap. 1891, 213; (14) Meyer, J. f. 0. 1892, 266; 

 (15) Salv., Cat. B. 1S96, XXV, 370. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Salvad ori 9, Salvin 15. 



Figures and descriptions. Temminck a 1; Temminck & Schlegel /I; Seebohm 72, wood- 

 cut of head; David & Oustalet 6; Salvador! 5; Salvin 15\ etc. 



Description. Above dull sepia-brown, the feathers of the back, shoulders and wing-coverts 

 with wliitish edges; wings and tail darker bro\vn, the concealed basal part of the 

 feathers white; head, face, and neck wliite streaked with blackish bro^vn, becoming 

 almost unifonn blacldsh brown on middle of occiput and on liind neck; entire under 

 parts white; -'feet, with claws, very pale rose-colour; bill blackish, passing into red- 

 dish on the sides of the mandibles, and into whitish towards the extremity of the 

 upper mandible; iris deep olivaceous brown, around the pupil a circle of yellowish 

 brown" (T. & S. 11); wing 335 mm; tail 150, lateral rectrices 100; tarsus 5(); middle 

 toe with claw 64, outer ditto 62 ; exposed culmen (straight) 52 (Dorey, New Guinea, 

 March, 1873: Meyer — Nr. 2193). 



Nest and eggs. We are not aware that these have been described. 



Distribution. Japan (Siebold a I, II, a 2, Pryer 12, etc.); Corea (G. Stephen 15); China 

 (David 6'); Philippines — Luzon (Cuming 4, 1-5); N. Borneo (Pryer 8, 11, 15); 

 N. Celebes (Rosenberg 5, v. Musschenbroek ? 7); Moluccas — Morty (Bernstein 

 a 2, 9), Ternate (Bruijn .9, Fischer 13), ? Burn (9), Amboina (9); Papuasia — 

 New Guinea (Meyer 9, Beccari 9, Geisler 14), Duke of York Id. (Hiibner 9); 

 N. E. Australia (Cockerell 15). 



An example of the Streaked »Shearwater obtained by von Rosenberg in 

 1863—1864, probably on the Gorontalo coast, has been placed on record by 



Meyer & Wiglesworth, Birds of Celebes (May 17tb, 1898). 115 



