154 PUPPINID^. 



5. St. £ilda, HebrideB, 10th June Seebohin Coll. 



(C. Dixon). 



1. Kathlin Island, 22nd May {M. R. Seebohm Coll. 



^ H. S.). 



2. Rathlin Island, 23rd May {M. S. Seebohm Coll. 



^ H. S.). 



Fuffinus yelcouan (Acerbi), 

 (Plate XII. fig. 3.) 



Puffinus anglorum, Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 617, part. (1876). 

 Puffinua yelkouan. Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 48. 

 Puffinus yelkouanus, Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. p. 379 (1896). 

 Puffinus yelcouan, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 123 (1899). 



The single egg of the Levantine Shearwater in the Collection is 

 inseparable from the eggs of P. puffinus. It measures 2"3 by 1'6. 



1. Cerbicali Islands, Corsica, 2nd May. J. Whitehead, Esq. [0.]. 



Fufflnns opisthomelas, Goues. 



Puffinus gavia, Baird, Brewer §• Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. ii. p. 389 



(1884). 

 Puffinus opisthomelas, Salmn, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. p. 380 (1896) ; 



Anthmy, Auk, 1896, p. 223 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 123 (1899). 



The three eggs of the Black-vented Shearwater in the Collection 

 measure respectively : 2-42 by 1-62 ; 2-4 by 1-64 ; 2-22 by 1-61. 



3. Natividad Island, Lower California, A. W. Anthony, Esq. [P.]. 



10th April. 



PufiBnus auduboni, Finsch. 



Puffinus obscurus, Cory, Birds Bahama Islands, p. 219 (1880) ; Seetiohm, 

 Brit. Birds, iii. p. 425, pi. 56 (1885) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 72, pi. 20. %. 2 (1896) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. p. 382, 

 part. (1896) ; Dresser, Birds Bur. ix. (Suppl.) p. 403 (1896). 



Puffinus auduboni, Baird, Brewer ^ Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. ii. 

 p. 886 (1884); Feilden, Ibis, 1889, pp. 60, 503; Con, Birds W. 

 Indies, p. 282 (1889) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 124 (1899). 



The three eggs of Audubon's Dusky Shearwater in the Collection 

 measure respectively : 2-1 by 1-48 ; 2-05 by 1-46 ; 2-07 by 1-35. 



1. Bahamas, 4th April (Diventz). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Barbados, 22nd March. Col. H. W. Feilden [P.], 



Puffinus subalaris, Ridgw. 

 (Plate XII. fig. 4.) 



Puffinus subalaris, Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xix. p. 650 a897) : 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 124 (1899). 

 Puffinus obscurus subalaris, Rothsch. &■ Hartert, Nov. Zool. vi. n. 195 



(1899). '^ 



Two eggs of the Galapagos Shearwater measure respeotivelv : 

 2-02 by 1-37 ; 2-01 by 1-39. 



