47. PUFFINUS CARNEIPES, Gould. 



(PINK-FOOTED SHEARWATER.) 



(Plate 37.) 



Puffinus carneipes, Gould, P. Z. S., 1844, p. 57 ; id., Birds Austr., Fol. VII., PI. 57 

 (1848) ; Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp., p. 265 (1890) ; Buller, Birds N. Zeal., 

 2nd Ed., II., p. 234 (1888) ; id., Suppl. Birds N. Zeal., I., p. 103 (1905) ; 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 385 (1896). 



Nectris carneipes, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 201 (1856) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1864, 

 pp. 126, 143 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., II., p. 465 (1865). 



Priofinus carneipes, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 769 (1856). 



Puffinus (Nectris) carneipes, Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, II., p. 139 (1877) ; 

 III., p. 406 (1879). 



P. griseo similis, et eadem statura insignis, sed subalaribus fuliginoso-nigris, absque 

 albedine : rostro cum naribus pedibusque carneis (in exuvie flavicantibus) distin- 

 guendus. 



This large Shearwater, though allied to P. griseus, is distinguished by its yellowish 

 feet and bill (flesh-colour in life), and by the absence of any whitish or ashy-grey on 

 the under wing-coverts, these being sooty-black or blackish-brown, and slightly darker 

 than the rest of the under-surface of the body. Some writers, Salvin among the number, 

 have suggested that Latham's " Kurile Petrel " (Gen. Syn. Birds, III., PL 2, p. 399, 1785 ; 

 unde Procellaria cequinoctialis, Var. A., Lath., Ind. Orn., II., p. 821, 1790) is probably 

 Puffinus carneipes. But in this I cannot agree, for Latham makes his bird a variety of 

 Procellaria cequinoctialis, which is the well-known Majaqueus, or " Cape Hen." If, as 

 he says, his " Kurile Petrel " is " half as large again, with a strong yellow bill," it more 

 closely resembles an Albatros, and is probably Diomedea albatrus. In any case, it 

 could hardly be Puffinus carneipes. 



Gould, who described the bird, says that all the specimens and eggs received by 

 him were from the islands off Cape Leeuwin. Mr. A. J. Campbell (Nests and Eggs of 

 Birds of Austr., II., p. 880) gives the habitat as the " seas of Western Australia, and 

 probably other parts of the southern coasts, including Tasmania." Mr. Ernest Saunders 



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