28. PUFFINUS BULLERI, Salvin. 



(BULLER'S SHEARWATER.) 

 (Plate 23.) 



Puffinus bulleri, Salvia, Ibis, 1888, p. 354 ; Buller, Birds New Zealand, II., p. 240, 

 PI. 41, fig. 2 (1888) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 371 (1896) ; 

 Anthony, Auk, XV., p. 38 (1898) ; Loomis, Pr. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) Zool., II., 

 p. 319 (1900) ; BuUer, Suppl. Birds New Zealand, L, p. 101 (1905). 



Puffinus zealandicus, Sandager, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst., XXII., p. 291 (1890). 



Cauda cuneata : gastrseo albo : interscapulio, tectricibus alarum majoribus, et 

 secundariis exterioribus, clare cinereis : primariis intus albis. 



Puffinus bulleri is a wedge-tailed Shearwater, and is allied to P. cuneatus, from which, 

 it differs in being ashy-grey on the upper-surface and on the greater wing-coverts, 

 these parts being brown in the latter species. The under wing-coverts, axillaries, and 

 quill-lining are pure white ; the under tail-coverts are also for the most part 

 white, the lateral ones more or less ashy-grey externally. The quill-Hning is white, 

 instead of dusky as in P. cuneatus. 



In the " Catalogue of Birds " Salvin stated that the outer half of the inner 

 webs of the primaries is white. This is an evident lapsus calami, as it is the inner half of 

 the quills which is white. 



Two specimens only of P. bulleri were known to Salvin, when he described the 

 species, one in our own collection of Petrels, and the other in the Rothschild 

 Museum. The former, now in the British Museum, was purchased from Mr. 

 Whitely, of Woolwich. It measures: Wing, 11.1 inches; tarsus, 2.1; middle toe 

 and claw, 2.35 ; culmen, 1.55. In the Rothschild Museum there are now two 

 specimens, one being a co-type of the species, a male from Waikanae : this bird is 

 figured in the present volume, and measures : Wing, 11.5 inches ; tarsus, 1.9 ; middle 

 toe and claw, 2.4 ; culmen, 1.6. A second male example, obtained by Mr. H. Travers 

 on the 5th of May, 1900, measures : Wing, 11.8 inches ; tarsus, 2.0 ; middle toe and 



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