Birds of Celebes: Puffinidae. 
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Adult. Like P.cuneatus, but the rinder surface sooty brown, not white, though paler than 
the upper parts. 
Sexes. The sexes are similar in coloration (Salvin 12). 
Egg. One; when fresh snow-white, varying much in size and shape, true ovals, lengthened 
and swollen ovals predominating; size 60 — 62X 40 — 42 mm (North 7). 
Nest. None. “Tliis bhd digs out a hole in the soft soil on the faces of the chffs, also in 
the sand on flat ground. Some of the burrows are six feet and more in length. 
The bird also lays extensively on Philip Island in shallow recesses under overhanging 
boulders and in colonies, i. e. many may be found close together. On Norfolk Island 
its holes are always isolated and the burrows deep” (Crowfoot a 5\ see, also, E. ■ 
Newton 2; Glould a JJ; Graffe .5; North a7). 
Distribution. From Loango (3) over the Indian Ocean south to Tasmania, east across the 
Pacific as far as the Society Islands and New Zealand. 
390. PUFFINUS LEUCOMELAS (Temm.). 
Streaked Shearwater. 
a. Procellaria leucomelas (I) Temm., PI. CoL 587 (1835); (2) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Proc., 1863,24. 
Puffinus leucomelas (1) Less., CompI de Buff. Ois. 711 (1838); (11) Temm. &Schl., Faun. 
Japon., Aves 1850, 131, pi. 85; (3) Cones, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1864, 130, 144; (4) 
Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 243, 252; (5) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 98; 
(6) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 515; Meyer, Ibis 1879, 144; ('Sj Sharpe, 
P. Z. S. 1881, 800; (9) Salvad., Ora. Pap. 1882, III, 461; (10) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 
1883, 120, 121; (11) Everett, J. Str. Br. E. A. S. 1889, 212; (12) Seeb., B. Japan 
1890, 264; (13) Salvad., Agg. Ora. Pap. 1891, 213; (14) Meyer, ,1. f. O. 1892, 266; 
(15) Salv., Oat. B. 1896, XXV, '370. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvador! 9, Salvin 15. 
Figures and descriptions. Temminck a/; Temminck & Schlegel JJ; Seebohm72, wood- 
cut of head; David & Oustalet 6; Salvador! 2; Salvin 75; etc. 
Description. Above dull sepia-brown, the feathers of the back, shoulders and wing- coverts 
with wlutish edges; wings and tail darker brown, the concealed basal part of the 
feathers white; head, face, and neck white streaked with blackish brown, becoming 
almost uniform blacldsh brown on middle of occiput and on tiind neck; entire under 
parts white; “feet, with claws, very pale rose-colour; bill blackish, passing into red- 
dish on the sides of the mandibles, and into whitish towards the extremity of the 
upper mandible; iris deep olivaceous brown, around the pupil a circle of yellowish 
brown” (T. & S. 11)] wing 335 mm; tail 150, lateral rectrices 100; tarsus 50; middle 
toe with claw 64, outer ditto 62; exposed culmen (straight) 52 (Dorey, New Guinea, 
Mai’ch, 1873: Meyer — Nr. 2193). 
Nest and eggs. We are not aware that these have been described. 
Distribution. Japan (Siebold a I, II, a 2, Pryer 12, etc.); Corea (G. Stephen 75); China 
(David 6)] Philippines — Luzon (Cuming 4, 15)] N. Borneo (Pryer 8, 11, 15)] 
N. Celebes (Rosenberg 5, v. Musschenbroek ? 7); Moluccas — Morty (Bernstein 
a 2, 9), Teraate (Bruijn 9, Fischer 13), ? Bum (9), Amboina (9)] Papuasia — 
New Guinea (Meyer 9, Beccari 9, Geisler 14), Duke of York Id. (Hiibner 9); 
N. E. Australia (Cockerell 75). 
An example of the Streaked Shearwater obtained by von Rosenberg in 
1863 1864, probably on the Gorontalo coast, has been placed on record by 
Meyer k Wiglesworth, Birds of Celebes (May 17*, 1898). 1 15 
