PUFFINUS LEUCOMELAS. 



to the entrance of the Gulf of Yezo. It was plentiful among the islands of 

 Iwoga-Shima, Yarubu-Shima, and Tanega-Shima, to the south of Kiusiu (Faun. 

 Vertebr. Oceano, p. 33). 



It will be noticed that the above records refer to the occurrence of P. leucomelas 

 in Corea and the Japanese Islands in the months of May and June, and from the numbers 

 observed by Professor Giglioli at the end of the latter month, we may infer that 

 it was breeding in these northern islands. 



To the southward this Shearwater occurs abundantly off the coasts of China 

 during the period of migration. Thus David speaks of a Petrel, dark brown above and 

 pure white beneath, which he observed in numbers off the coast of Shantung in June, 

 1868. He also noticed the same bird in the seas off Che-kiang (David and Oust., Ois. 

 Chine, p. 515). In the British Museum are further specimens presented by Mr. C. B. 

 Rickett, who procured them off Fohkien in July, 1896, and between Shanghai and 

 Foochow in November of the same year. 



A single example has been recorded from the Philippine Archipelago, having been 

 obtained by Cuming at Cataguan, in southern Luzon (Gray, List Anseres Brit. Mus., 

 p. 160) ; and Mr. W. B. Pryer obtained a specimen from Sandakan in north-east Borneo 

 (Sharpe, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 800). 



Dr. Pleske records the species from Ternate, in the Moluccas (Bull. Acad. St. 

 Petersb., XXIX., p. 539), and Bernstein obtained a specimen at Morotai (Morty Island). 

 Dr. Otto Finsch also mentions it from Buru (Salvad., Orn. Papuasia, III., p. 461). 



According to Dr. A. B. Meyer and Mr. Wiglesworth (Birds, Celebes, II., p. 913), a 

 specimen was obtained by Von Rosenberg, probably on the Gorontalo coast, in 1863- 

 1864, and two more, from the same traveller, are said by Dr. Buttikofer to be in the 

 Leyden Museum. Musschenbroek informed Dr. Meyer that he obtained an example 

 between Manado and Kwandang, in the Minahassa, but as he speaks elsewhere 

 (Nat. Tijdsk, Nederl. Ind., XXXVL, p. 379, 1876) of a Procellaria leucoptera which 

 seems to relate to the same specimen, the authors of the " Birds of Celebes " were 

 unable to determine which species was really concerned in this case. 



Many examples have been sent from New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan 

 Islands. Dr. Finsch mentions one from Amboyna, and the British Museum has two 

 from Dutch New Guinea, obtained from Mr. Van Duivenbode, and similar examples are 

 in the Rothschild Museum at Tring. Dr. A. B. Meyer noticed P. leucomelas near 

 Dorei (Ibis, 1879, p. 144), and Dr. Beccari at Dorei-hum (Salvad., Orn. Papuasia, III., 

 p. 461). The Hon. Walter Rothschild also possesses a specimen from Constantine 

 Harbour, obtained by Mr. Kubary, and Count Von Berlepsch has another from Finsch 

 Harbour, procured by Mr. B. Geisler. Dr. Hubner also met with the bird on Duke of 

 York Island, where, he says, the native name is " Kitai " (Finsch, P. Z. S., 1879, p. 16). 



The Cockerell Collection, which I presented some years ago to the British Museum, 

 contains a specimen said to have been procured in north-east Australia, but although 



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