29. PUFFINUS CHLORORHYNCHUS, Lesson. 



(WEDGE-TAILED SHEARWATER.) 



(Plate 24.) 



Puffinus chlororhynchus, Less., Traite d'Orn., p. 612 (1831) ; Milne-Edwards and 



Grandid., Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois., p. 680, Pis. 297, 298 (1885) ; Buller, 



Birds N. Zeal., 2nd ed., II., p. 235 (1888); Wiglesw., Abhandl. K. Mus. 



Dresd., 1890-91, No. 6, p. 80 (1891); Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



XXV., p. 372 (1896). 

 Puffinus sphenurus, Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII., p. 365 (1844) ; id., Birds 



Austr., VII., PI. 58 (1848) ; Salvad., Orn. Papuasia, III., p. 464 (1882) ; 



id., op. tit., Agg., p. 213 (1891). 

 Le Petrel chlororhynche, Jacq. et Pucher., Voy. Pole Sud, III., p. 138 (1853). 

 Nectris gama, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 202 (1856). 

 Thiellus chlororhynchus, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 769 (1856) ; id., Consp. Av., II., 



p. 201 (1856) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1864, pp. 123, 142. 

 Thiellus sphenurus, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 769 (1856) ; id., Consp. Av., II., p. 201 



(1856) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1864, pp. 122, 142 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 



Austr., II., p. 466 (1865). 

 Puffinus obscurus (nee Gm.), Elwes, Ibis, 1859, p. 397. 



Majaqueus sphenurus, Rosenb., Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind., XXV., p. 256 (1863). 

 Procellaria sphenura, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, VI., Procell., p. 25 (1863). 

 Procellaria chlororhyncha, Schlegel, t.c, p. 25 (1863). 

 Puffinus cinereus (nee Gm.), Layard, Ibis, 1863, p. 247. 

 Puffinus sp., Legge, Str. F., III., p. 374 (1875). 

 Puffinus carneipes (nee Gould), Cheeseman, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst., XXIII. , p. 226 (1891 ; 



teste Hutton). 

 Mutton-bird, of Australian Naturalists. 



Cauda longa, cuneata : undique fuliginoso-brunneus. 



Although resembling the foregoing species in its wedge-shaped tail, P. chlororhynchus 



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