Order PB0CELLABIIF0EME8 
No. 86. 
Family PBOCELLABIIDM. 
PUFFINUS REINHOLDI HUTTONI. 
SNARES BROWN-BACKED PETREL. 
Puirmus REINHOLDI HiJTTONi, subsp. n. ; Snares Island, New Zealand ; Type in my 
collection. 
Distribution. South Australia (accidental) ; Snares Island (breeding). 
Adult male. Larger than P. r. reinholdi, with a longer bill and wing ; the brown on the 
sides of the neck encroaching on to the chest, where it almost meets, leaving the 
throat white ; the whole of the sides of the body smoky-brown, the flanks noticeably 
so ; inner wing white with darker shaft-hnes (none are seen in the typical form) ; 
axillaries brown. Oulmen 38 mm., wing 226, tarsus, 41. 
Adult female. Similar to the male. 
Nesting -habits, etc. Unknown. 
I HAVE pointed out that the Snares Island Petrel differs from the typical form, 
and it is most interesting to find that a bird in the British Museum sent from 
the Adelaide Museum as having been obtained at Adelaide, South Australia, 
is referable to this southern form. 
