Oedee TUBINAEES.] 
[Fam. PEOCELLARIIDiE. 
PUFFINUS BULLEEL 
(BULLEE’S SHEAEWATEE.) 
Fuffinus hulleri, Salvin, Ibis, 1888, p. 354. 
Ad. suprk saturate griseus, capite toto supra cum cervice posticfl fuligiuoso-nigris, loris et regione oplithalmica vix 
griseo intermixtis : tectricibus alarum minoribus fuliginoso-iiigris, majoribus externe griseis et extrorsum 
albo limbatis : remigibus fuliginoso-nigris, pogonio interuo bitriente interiio nigro : pagiua alarum inferiore 
et corpore subtus niveis, crisso utrinque scbistaceo limbato : cauda cuiieata nigricante, rectricibus lateralibus 
griseo tinctis : rostro obscure plumbeo, mandibula infrji carnea : pedibus externe corylinis, interne flavis. 
Adult male. General upper surface dark slaty grey, shading into sooty brown on the crown, nape, and small wing- 
coverts ; the secondaries and their coverts margined with greyish white; the primaries and the tail-feathers 
black in their whole extent, the former greyish white on the under surface, except towards the tips ; the 
tertials and the scapulars hrowmish black, more or less tipped with grey; the upper tail-coverts somewhat 
lighter than the plumage of the hack, and each feather narrowly tipped with greyish white; throat, sides 
of face, the entire fore neck, and all the underparts pure white, except that the lateral under tail-coverts are 
slaty grey on their outer webs ; under surface of wings and axillary plumes pure white, only the long covert 
of the first primary on each wing showing a tendency to grey. Irides black ; hill blue-black, fading into 
bluish grey on the sides of both mandibles; inner side of tarsi, which are much flattened, the middle and 
inner toes, and the interdigital weh flesh-u'hite; outer aspect of tarsi and the whole of the outer toe 
brownish black. Total length 19'5 inches; extent of wings 40; wing, from flexure, 13; tail 6 ; bill, along 
tbe ridge 2, along the edge of lower mandible 2‘1 ; tarsus 1'8 ; middle toe and claw 3'o. 
Female. Mr. Salvin’s collection contains a specimen {purchased from Mr. MTiitely, of Woolwich, as having come 
from New Zealand) which is duller in plumage than my bird, with more brown on the upper surface. This 
is probably the female. 
The only example of this fine Petrel I have had an opportunity of examining in the flesh was 
picked up by myself on the ocean-beach near the mouth of the Waikanae river on the 1st October, 
1884, having been blown ashore by the “ rangawhenua,” as the Maoris call all winds from the sea. 
It is remarkable for its length of neck and tail. Indeed at first sight it looks more like a small 
Shag than a Petrel, and several of the Maoris at Waikanae to w'hom I showed it declared that it really 
was a Kawau till I pointed out to them its tubular nostrils. It proved on dissection to be a male. 
On passing Whale Island in a boat with a Maori crew in the summer of 1886, a black-looking 
Petrel wdth a conspicuously long tail hovered over us for some time and then steered out seaward at 
a considerable elevation aiid with a swift flight. On asking our steersman, Wepiha, if he knew the 
bird, he replied “ He Kahn no te moana ” (a Hawk from the sea). Unless I am right in referring the 
bird to the above species, I am unable to identify it, for it never came very near to us, and did not 
reappear from the dreary waste of waters. 
Mr. Salvin, who has been good enough to dedicate the species to myself, writes of it : — “ This 
distinct species appears to belong to the section of the genus possessing long cuneate tails, of which 
P. chlororhynchm is the best-known species. Its coloration at once makes it easily recognizable, no 
other species having a grey mantle, with which the dark head and dark wings are in striking contrast, 
this style of coloration being characteristic of many species of (Estrelata." 
