2 THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD [Vol. V. 



In my Birds of Australia, Vol. 11., pt. 1., p. 72, May 30, 1912, 

 I discussed Puffinus Iherminieri nugax from off Towiisville, 

 Queensland, collected by Solander during Ms famous voyage 

 with Banks. In the Manual of the Birds of Australia, p. 25, 

 March 9, 1921, Iredale and I say that we considered this 

 name to refer to Reinlioldia reinholdi. 



I now wish to record that a specimen of this last-mentioned 

 bird was picked up dead on the beach in New Caledonia by 

 the late ]VIr. P. D. Montagu in 1914. It has all the upper- 

 surface, including the head, side of neck, back, upper tail- 

 coverts, tail and wing sooty ; all the under-surface, including 

 the wing and tail-coverts white ; the feet and legs coloured 

 the same as those of Reinholdia reinholdi. Wing 197 mm., 

 culmen 32, tail 59, tarsus 41. This can be caUed Reinholdia 

 reinholdi montaguei subsp. n. = Reinholdia gavia montagitei. 



The Committee of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' 

 Union have also considered the matter of Puffinus gaviaForsteT 

 and have concluded that the description of tlie upper coloration 

 given by Forster " Coerulescenti-nigra " appUes to the bird in 

 the fresh state. The vernacular name of this species was given 

 by Godman as " Brown-backed Petrel " and all the specimens 

 available in 1910 were " brown," so I rejected Forster's name 

 as inapplicable to this species. Under the new circumstances 

 that the " Brown-backed Petrel " is blue-black when aUve 

 I revert to the Forsterian specific name and the names will 

 then read : 



Reinholdia gavia gavia (Forster.) 



Check List, p. 37. 



Alter references of Leptorhynchus, a synonjin of Gladorhyn- 

 chus, to 



Leptorhynchus I)u Bus, L'Institut, Vol. III., No. 103, 

 p. 138, April 29, 1835. Type (by monotypy); L. pectoralis 

 Du Bus. 



Leptorhynchus pectoralis on p. 38, earUest reference reads : 



Leptorhynchus pectoralis Du Bus, L'Institut., Vol. III., 



