Order PROGELLARIIFOBMES 
No. 88. 
Family PROCELLARIIDM. 
PUFFINUS PAOIFICUS ROYANUS. 
EASTERN WEDGE-TAILED PETREL. 
(Plate 75.)* 
Ptjpfintts PAomcTJS ROYANUS, subsp. n. ; East Australia ; T3rpe no. 252 in my collection. 
Puffinus cMororhynchus (not Lesson), North, Birds County Cumber., p. 114, 1898 ; Sharpe, 
Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., Birds, p. 152, 1906 ; Godman, Monogr. Petreb, p. 84, 1908 ; 
HuU, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1909, Vol. XXXIV., p. 647, 1910. 
Pufjinus sphenurus (not Gould), North, Austr, Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 377, 1889 ; Campbell 
and White, Emu, Vol. X., p. 201, 1910; Hull, ih., Vol. XI., pp. 99 et seq., 1911 ; 
id., ih., Vol. XI., p. 206 ; 1912. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia ; Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. 
Adult male. General colour above sooty-brown, with pale margins of lighter brown to the 
feathers of the mantle, back, scapulars and wings ; under-surface dusky brown, with 
hoary-grey on the chin, throat, and fore-neck ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries 
similar to the under-surface of body ; “ BiU dark horn or bone-brown, tarsus and 
feet (living specimens) fleshy-white or yellowish flesh-colour, with black mottlings 
down the whole of the outer side of the tarsus and outer toe to the base of the last 
phalanx ; toes whitish ” (Campbell and White). Total length 420 mm. ; culmen 
45 (exp. 37), wing 285, tail 135, tarsus 46. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nestling. “ About two weeks old ; Covered with down, the upper- and most of the under- 
surface ashy-grey, throat and upper-breast greyish-white ; bill black, with hom- 
coloured tip ; feet yellowish- white. Total length 6 inches. Broughton Island, 30th 
January, 1911.” (HuU.) 
About ten weeks old. “ True feathers on back and wings sooty-black, ashy -grey on the breast, 
throat darker ; biU black, feet and toes yeUowish-white. Total length 10 inches. 
Broughton Island, 13th March, 1911.” (HuU.) 
Nest. At the end of a burrow. 
Egg. Clutch one; white; axis 63 to 64 mm., diameter 41-42. 
Breeding-season. November (Lord Howe Island) ; September to December (SoUtar^ Islands). 
Mb. J. W. Mellob says he got these birds on Capricorn Island (off the Queens- 
land coast) in October, 1910. He found the ground riddled with their burrows. 
On the 13th the birds commenced to arrive on the North-west Island, and each 
* The Plate is lettered Puffinus chlororhynchus. 
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