51. PBIOFINUS CINEREUS (Gm.). 



(GREAT GREY SHEARWATER.) 



(Plate 41.) 



Cinereous Petrel, Latham, Gen. Syn., III., Pt. II., pp. 395, 405 (1785). 



Procellaria cinerea, Gm., Syst. Nat., I., p. 563 (1788) ; Lath., Ind. Orn., II., p. 824 



(1790) ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 305 (1873). 

 Procellaria melanura, Bonn., Enc. Meth., L, p. 79 (1790). 

 Puffinus cinereus, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII., p. 227 (1826) ; Lawrence in 



Baird's Birds N. Amer., p. 835 (1858) ; A. 0. U. Checklist, N. Amer. Birds, 



2nd Ed., p. 33 (1895). 

 Procellaria hcesitata (nee Kuhl), Forster, Descr. An., Ed. Licht., p. 208 (1844) ; Gould, 



Birds Austr., VII., PI. 47 (1848). 

 Priofinus cinereus, Jacq. et Pucher., Voy. Pole Sud, Zool., III., p. 145 (1853) ; Elli ot, 



New and Unfig. Birds N. Amer., II., PI. 60, Fig. 2 (1868) ; Giglioli, Faun. 



Vertebr. Oceano, p. 34 (1870) ; Baird, Brewer & Ridgway, Water-Birds N. 



Amer., p. 375 (1884) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 390 (1896). 

 Adamastor typus, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 187 (1855). 

 Puffinus kuhlii (nee Boie), Cass., Pr. Acad. Philad., 1862, p. 327. 

 Procellaria adamastor, Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, VI., Procell., p. 23 (1863). 

 Adamastor cinereus, Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1864, pp. 119, 142; Gould, Handb. Birds 



Austr., IL, p. 446 (1865) ; Salvin, Voy. " Challenger," Zool., II., p. 143 (1881) ; 



Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd Ed., II., p. 241 (1888). 

 Mstrelaia hazsitata (nee Kuhl), Hutton, Ibis, 1869, p. 352. 

 Priofinus melanurus, Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, p. 330 (1872) ; Ridgway, Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., ni., p. 209 (1880). 



Schistaceo-cinereus, pileo vix saturatiore : remigibus et rectricibus nigricantibus : 

 facie laterali et colli lateribus cinereis : genis et corpore subtus toto pure albis : sub- 

 caudalibus, subalaribus, et axillaribus saturate cinereis. 



I have followed Salvin {Cat Birds Brit. Mus., XXV, p. 390) in adopting the name of 

 Priofinus cinereus for this species. Although the original description given by Latham 



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