ALLIED PETREL. 
This form approaches the New Zealand one, but, according to the figure made 
hy Parkinson, has a thicker bill. Ridgway’s P. subalaris must be restricted to 
the lesser form inhabiting the Galapagos. 
Solander’s P. nugax, as here carefully described, is not a synonym of 
P. assimilis as generally included. The above embraces all the names definitely 
applicable to the forms of either species, and I would fix the nomenclature to be 
used as follows : — 
Puffinus assimilis assimilis Gould ; Norfolk Island ; Kermadec group. 
This form was recorded by Gray {Ibis, 1862, p. 244) from Lord Howe Island, 
but was not included by Hull as breeding on that island in his Birds of Lord 
Howe and Norfolk Islands {Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1909, Vol. XXXIV., pp. 636 
et seq., 1910). In the synonymy of this bird, Puffinus australis Eyton, has been 
included. This name first appears in literature in Gould’s Birds of Australia, and 
in the British Museum is a bird received from Gould which bears the label 
“ Puffinus australis, Ey. Mus., Salop : ikustralian seas.” This would seem to 
be the original, and belongs to the Norfolk Island form. 
Puffinus assimilis gavia Eorster ; New Zealand. 
Puffinus assimilis ke7npi, subsp. n. ; Chatham Islands, New Zealand. 
I have given the distinguishing features of this form in the preceding pages. 
Puffinus asshnilis tunneyi, subsp. n. ; West Australia. 
Will be more fully dealt with in the succeeding article. 
Puffinus assLnilis munda Salvin ; South Pacific Ocean. 
The breeding-place of this race has not been determined. 
Puffinus assLnilis, subsp. indet.; Reunion. 
The two specimens only examined do not permit the diagnosis of this 
subspecies, and I consider, until further series are to hand, that P. hailloni 
Bonaparte should be used for the Seychelles bird, although that locality 
is further from the Isle of France than Reunion is. It is to be hoped that no 
one will name the Seychelles race without carefully examining series from 
both localities, and therefore put the name upon a firm basis. 
Puffinus asswiilis elegans Giglioli and Salvadori ; Gough Island. 
Puffinus assLnilis baroli Bonaparte ; Madeira ; Canaries and ?Azores. 
As synonyms of this subspecies should be noted Puffinus gracilirostrfs Bona- 
parte (nude name), Puffinus godmani Allen, and Puffinus obscurus dtlanticus 
Rothschild and Hartert, all given to the Madeiran bird. 
The correct attachment of the names of the other group is more diflicult. 
Puffinus Iherminieri Iherminieri Lesson ; 
West Indies, Bahamas, and Bermudas. 
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