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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



FAMILY 



procellaridjE. 



Subfamily, PROCELLARIN^. 



Genus: PUFFINUS. Briss. 

 PUFFINUS: BRISSON, ORNITH., VI. p. 131, 1760. 



PUFFINUS OBSCURUS. (Gm.) 



Procellaria obscura. Gmel., Syst. Nat., I. p. 559 (1788). — Bryant, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XI. p. 98 (1866). 



Puffinus obsctirits. Bp., Syn., p. 371 (1828). — Nutt., Man., II. 

 P- 337 (1S34). — Aud., Bds. Am., VII. p. 216, pi. 458 (1844).— 

 Lawr., in Baird's Bds. N. Am., p. 835 (1858). — Bryant, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., VII. p. 132 (1859).— Cory, Bds. Bahama 

 I., p. 219 (1880).— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., No. 835 (1882). 



Puffinus auduboni, Finsch, P. Z. S., 1S72, p. 111. — Ridgw., Nora. 

 N. Am. Bds., No. 712 (18S1).— Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., Hist. 

 N. Am. W. Bds., II. p. 386 (1S84). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Above, glossy brown, shading" into grayish 

 upon the sides of the breast; below, white; crissum, brown and 

 white; tail, brown, the feathers faintly tipped with ashy; bill, lead 

 color. 



Length 12.50; wing 8; tail 4.25; tarsus 1.60; bill 1.30. 



Dr. Bryant records this species from San Domingo. None 

 were met with by our party, although a number were seen while 

 at sea about twenty miles north of Tortuga I. 



