45. PUFFINUS ELEGANS, Gigl and Salvad. 



(GIGLIOLI'S SHEARWATER.) 

 (Plate 36.) 



Puffinus elegans, Gigl. and Salvad., Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat., XI., p. 457 (1868) ; iid., Ibis, 

 1869, p. 68 ; Gigl., Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 32 (1870) ; id., Viagg. " Magenta," 

 pp. 98, 103 (1875) ; Salvin, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., I., p. 256, PL 34 (1876) ; 

 Ridgw., Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 61 (1887) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XXV., p. 385 (1896). 



Puffinus sp. nov., Gigl. and Salvad., Ibis, 1869, p. 67. 



P. assimili affinis, sed supra cinereo-plumbeus, plumis totis angustissime albo 

 limbatis : tectricibus alarum mediis majoribus que et secundariis albo limbatis : 

 subalaribus pure albis : remigibus quoque intus pure albis. 



A specimen of this Shearwater was procured by Professor Giglioli, during the voyage 

 of the " Magenta," in the South Atlantic Ocean, in Lat. 43° 54' S., Long. 9° 20' E. ; 

 it was considered by both Count Salvadori and himself to be distinct from all 

 known species as enumerated by Coues in his " Monograph," by reason of the fine 

 cinereous colour of the upper parts, the only form with which it might be identified 

 being Puffinus mundus (Kuhl), (Nectris munda, Banks, Tab. 24), but the following 

 diagnosis of Bonaparte, the only one available, was too brief and incomplete to depend 

 upon : — " Magnitudine Perdicis, alis cauda aliquantum brevioribus : cauda brevi, 

 cuneiformi : rostro cyaneo-griseo, apice nigro : pedibus cyaneis, unguibus falculatis." 



Though the above description partly agrees with their specimen, Professor Giglioli 

 and Count Salvadori find that the tail is not wedge-shaped but rounded, the bill has 

 a black culmen, the feet are not entirely blue, and there is no mention of the coloration 

 so characteristic of the species ; " fine cinereous lead-colour above, and pure white 

 below." 



The drawing to which the name of Nectris munda is attached is No. 24 of Sydney 

 Parkinson's pictures (cf. Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., II., Birds, p. 176), and bears 

 the following note : — " The beak blue-grey towards the back, and the point black ; 



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