49. PUFFINUS TENUIKOSTKIS {Temm.). 



(SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER.) 

 (Plate 39.)* 



Procellaria tenuirostris, Temm., PI. Col., text to PI. 587 (1835) ; id., and Schl., Faun. 



Japon, p. 131, PI. 86 (1842). 

 Pvffinus brevicaudus, Brandt, Icon. Ross., Av., taf. 6, fig. 17 (1836) ; Gould, Birds 



Austr., fol. VII., PI. 56 (1847) ; Buller, Birds N. Zeal., p. 315 (1873). 

 Puffinus tenuirostris, Gray, List Anseres, Brit. Mus., p. 160 (1844) ; Salvad., Orn. 



Papuasia, III., p. 462 (1882) ; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. 



Amer., II., p. 392 (1884) ; Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp., p. 267 (1890) ; 



Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 388 (1896). 

 Nectris tenuirostris, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 202 (1856) ; Coues, Proe. Acad. Philad., 



1864, pp. 126, 143. 

 Nectris brevicauda, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 201 (1856) ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 



II., p. 459 (1865). 

 Pufjflnus curilicus, Bp., C. R., XLIL, p. 769 (1856). 

 Priofinus brevicauda, Bp., t.c, p. 769 (1856). 

 Procellaria curilica, Kittl. Denkwiird., I., p. 296 (1858). 

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

 Pufflnus brevicaudatus, Finsch, J. f. O., 1870, p. 371. 

 Priocella tenuirostris, Nelson, Cruise " Corwin," p. 152 (1883). 



Cauda rotundata, breviore, 3.25-3.6 poll. : ubique fuliginoso-brunneus. 



This species is very similar in appearance to P. chlororhynchus, but is distinguished 

 by its more slender bill and especially by the form of the tail, which is short and rounded, 

 not wedge-shaped, as in the above-mentioned bird. 



On this account it was called P. brevicaudus by Brandt and Gould, and it was 

 some time before ornithologists discovered that the Short-tailed Shearwater was 

 identical with Procellaria tenuirostris of Temminck. The type of the latter was procured 

 in the Japanese Seas during the voyage of Von Siebold. The species has since been 



* Lettered P. brevicauda on the Plate. 



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