QUEENSLAND BLACK-AND-WHITE PETREL. 
they were undoubtedly P. assimilis. In view of this no certainty can be 
achieved without specimens. 
The alternative is that the specimen Solander procured was a wanderer, 
and for that reason I prefer to withhold my decision until we have learnt 
more about Australian Petrels than we have at present. I have noted that a 
bird from the New Hebrides is in the British Museum, as also a specimen 
supposed to have come from New Zealand which I have regarded as 
representing an unnamed subspecies of P. Iheryninieri, but for the present 
would class them with this unique specimen. I would point out that the 
“ New Zealand ” specimen has the under tail-coverts whitish, the long lateral 
ones with the outer webs darker ; the New Hebrides bird has the longer tail- 
coverts all dark, and the shorter ones all white. 
Regarding Puffinus “ gavia ” {—reinholdi, mihi) the accounts of Reischek 
and Sandager show some discrepancies. Can it be that in New Zealand 
there is a breeding form of Puffinus Iherminieri which has been confused 
with P. reinholdi ? 
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