52 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Subfamily PUTFININ^. Sheabwatebs and Petrels. 



Genus PUFFINUS Brisson. 



Puffimis Bhisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 130. Tjrpe, by tautonymy, [Puffinus] 

 ■puffinus Bbisson = Procellaria puffinus Brdnnich. 



Pflflfinus boredlis Cory. Cory's Shearwater. [88.] 



Puffinus borealis Cory, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VI, Jan., 1881, 84. (Near 

 Chatham Island, Cape Cod, Mass.) 



Range. — Known only from off coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island, and Long Island (August to November). 



PuflBnus gravis (O'Reilly). Greater Shearwater. [89.] 



Procellaria gravis O'Reilly, Greenland, Adjacent Seas, etc., 1818, 140, 

 pi. 12, fig. 1. (Cape Farewell and Staten Hook to Newfoundland.) 



Range. — Atlantic Ocean, from Arctic Circle south to Cape Horn 

 and Cape of Good Hope; occurs off the eastern coast of North Amer- 

 ica from June to November. 



[Puffinus puffinus (Brunnich). Manx Shearwater. [90.] 



Procellaria puffinus Brunnich, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 29. (Faroe Islands 

 and Norway.) 



Range. — North Atlantic, chiefly on eastern side, south to coast of 

 Brazil; accidental in Greenland.] 



Puffinus creitopus Coues. Pink-footed Shearwater. [91.] 



Puffinus creatopus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 131. (San 

 Nicolas Island, California.) 



Range. — Eastern Pacific Ocean, from Farallon Islands, CaUfornia, 

 south to Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile. 



Puffinus Iherminigri Lesson. Audubon's Shearwater. [92.] 



Puffinus Iherminieri Lesson, Revue Zool., II, 1839, 102. ("Ad ripas 

 Antillarum.") 



