THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
In the Monogfa'ph of the Petfels, only one form of P. carneipes is recognised, 
of which it is written : “ After the breeding season in Australia, P. carneipes 
passes north to the seas of J apan, but has not yet been found in the intervening 
area, nor is it known to nest in its northern habitat.” 
The author of the Monograph did not have a typical specimen of P. carneipes 
at the time he wrote, but the J apanese specimens were obviously different from 
the Norfolk Island breeding birds, which he did have. I do not accept the 
idea that the Australian birds go to Japan, and moreover find that the West 
Australian bird is not the same as the Norfolk Island one. Whether the latter 
bird breeds on the east coast mainland of Australia is not known, as North has 
Just pointed out that the bird from the Solitary Island off New South Wales, 
recorded by Bamsay as P. carneipes, is not this species, but P. p. chlororhynchus. 
I expect we shall soon learn however from the researches of Mr. A. F. B. 
Hull, who is now interesting himself in this group with the most gratifying and 
unexpected results. 
Gould described this bird from West Australia as follows : — 
Pufflnus carneipes n. sp. The whole of the plumage chocolate-black ; bill fleshy-white ; 
the culmen and tips of the mandibles brown ; legs, feet and membranes yellowish flesh- 
colour. Total length 15 inches ; bill If ; wing 12 ; tail 5 ; tarsi 2 ; middle toe and nail 2^. 
Breeding on the small islands of Cape Leeuwin. 
I propose to separate the Norfolk Island form of this species on account 
of its larger size in every dimension, and especially its stouter bill, which must 
also have been differently coloured in life. Wing 322 mm., culmen (exp.) 45, 
tarsus 56. This form I name 
Puffinus carneipes hullianus, subsp. n., 
to mark the interest taken in the Norfolk Island avifauna by Mr. A. F. Basset 
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From P. c. hullianus, the Japanese birds are easily separable by their lighter 
coloration, the less stout bill, which was differently coloured in life, the 
coloration of the inner-wing, and the slightly longer wing and tail. All the 
specimens are quite constant in this respect. I name this subspecies 
Puffinus carneipes hakodate, subsp. n. 
The New Zealand breeding-bird is also probably different, in which case 
it should bear Solander’s name of carhonaria and be known as 
Puffinus carneipes carbonarius. 
Solander’s description, herewith given, shows the acumen of that great 
naturalist in a wonderful manner, as noted in the opening sentence of the 
‘‘ Poto avis nigricans; media inter Nectres et Procellarias’^ : this, with his 
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