48. PUFFINUS GBISEUS (Gm.). 



(SOOTY SHEARWATER.) 



(Plate 38.) 



Grey Petrel, Latham, Gen. Syn., III., pt. 2, p. 399 (1785). 



Nectris fuliginosa (nee Kuhl), Solander MSS. ; Parkinson, Icon. Ined., No. 23. 



Procellaria fuliginosa, G. Forster, Icon. Ined., No. 94. 



Procellaria grisea, Gm., Syst. Nat., I., p. 564 (1788) ; Kuhl, Beitr., p. 144 (1820). 



Daption griseum, Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII. , p. 246 (1826). 



Puffinus fuliginosus, A. Strickland, P. Z. S., 1832, p. 129 ; Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 



2nd ed., p. 787 (1884). 

 Puffinus cinereus (nee Gm.), Gould, Birds Eur., V., PL 445, fig. 2 (1837). 

 Puffinus tristis, J. R. Forster, Descr. Anim., ed. Licht, p. 23 (1844) ; Buller, Birds N. 



Zeal., p. 317 (1873). 

 Puffinus major (nee Faber), Gray, Voy. " Erebus and Terror," I., Birds, p. 17 (1840). 

 Nectris fuliginosus, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 202 (1856); Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1864, 



pp. 125, 143. 

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

 Nectris amaurosoma, Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1864, p. 124. 

 Puffinus amaurosoma, Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 34 (1870) ; id., Viagg. 



" Magenta," pp. 844, 861 (1875) ; Coues, Checklist N. Amer. Birds, p. 129 



(1882). 

 Puffinus griseus, Finsch, J. f. O., 1874, p. 209 ; Salvin, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., I., p. 236 



(1876) ; id., Ibis, 1888, p. 355 ; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds 



N. Amer., II., p. 391 (1884) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 386 



(1896). 

 Puffinus stricklandi, Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer., 



II., p. 390 (1884). 



Cauda rotundata, 3.2-3.75 poll. : omnino fuliginoso-brunneus : sub-alaribus griseo-albis, 

 rhachidibus nigris, itaque plagam albam subalarem conspicuam exhibentibus. 



Puffinus griseus is distinguished from the other short-tailed, dusky-coloured, members 



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