Birds of Celebes: Puffinidae. 
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FAMILY PUFFINIDAE. 
The Shearwaters and Fulmar Petrels are distinguished by Salvin from the 
other members of the Tubinares as follows: “Nostrils united externally, or 
nearly so, above the culmen; margin of the sternum uneven; distinct pterygoid 
processes; manubrium of furcula very short; coracoids short, wide at the base 
and divergent; P* primary the longest, or not shorter than the second”. The 
Fulmars are further marked off as a subfamily by their having the sides of the 
palate furnished with lamellae. 
GENUS PUFFINUS Briss. 
Bill much like that of a Frigate-bird (Fregata) — nearly straight with a 
terminal hook, but dilfering of course by the tubular nostrils on the dorsal sur- 
face of the maxilla; tarsus laterally compressed, reticulated, shorter than middle 
toe and claw ; the outer toe about equal to the middle one ; tail ronnded or 
cuneate; wings moderate. Cosmopolitan. 
389. PUFFINUS CUNEATUS Salv. 
Snow’s Wedge-tailed Shearwater. 
Puffinus cuneatus (1) Salvin, Ibis 1888, 353; (2) Stejn., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, XII, 
377; (3) Seeb., Ibis 1891, 191; (4) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1892, 80; fFJ Wilson, 
Av. Hawaii, pt. IV pb (1893); (6) Salvin, Oat. B. 1896, XXV, 371. 
a. Puffinus knudseni (1) Stejn., Pr. IJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, XI, 93. 
b. Puffinus chlororhynchus (nec Less.); (!) M. & Wg., J. f. 0. 1894, 116; (2) iid.. Abb. Mus. 
Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 20. 
Pigure and descriptions. S. B. Wilson F; Salvin J, 6\ Stejneger ah 
Immature. Above sepia-brown, darkest on lower back and lesser wing-coverts, greyer on 
hind neck, darker and duller brown on head above; mantle, scapulars, and greater 
wing-coverts with paler edgings; wings and tail blackish brown; submalar region, 
chin and under parts white with a shade of pearl-grey in it, sides of neck greyer; 
under tail-coverts sepia-brown; under wing-covcrts white, varied with grey- 
brown; “ills dark brown; bill steel-blue, tip darker; feet and legs pale flesh-red”; 
wing 291 mm; tail 136, lateral rectrices 90; tarsus 48; middle toe with claw 56, 
outer toe about 2 iTim shorter; exposed culmen (straight) 38 (Q, Kema, N. Celebes, 
15. Sept. 1893: P. & P. Sarasin). 
Adult. The adult answers well to the above description, but as the specimen described is 
manifestly changing to a greyer brown plumage (as shown by the presence of new 
and of more abraded feathers); the bird is evidently more smoky and less sepia-tinted 
when adult. 
Nest and eggs. Mr. S. B. Wilson fF) draws attention to Dr. Finsch’s observations on the 
breeding of a Shearwater, which seems to have been this species, in the Sandwich 
Islands, but the bird was only seen, and broken fragments only of its eggs obtained. 
Seebohm f3J records it as breeding abundantly on Sulphur Island, Bonin Group; 
an egg from there measured 63.5 X 42 mm. 
