Order PR0GELLARI1F0RME8 
No. 91. 
Family PROCELLARIIDJB. 
PUFFINUS TENUIKOSTRIS BREVIOAUDUS. 
SHORT-TAILED PETREL. 
(Plate 78.) 
PuEEiNirs BEEVICAT7DUS Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., PI. 56, 1847, Islands in Bass 
Strait. 
Pufjfinus brevicaudus Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII,, p. 365, 1844 (no description); 
id., Birds Austr., Vol. VII., PI. 56, 1847 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p, 315, 1873 ; 
Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., p. 319, 1911 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 4, 1911. 
Sooty Petrel, Davies, Tasm. Joum., Vol. II., p. 13, 1843. 
Nectris brevicaudus Bonaparte, Oonsp. Gen. Av., Vol, II., p. 201, 1857 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 459, 1865 ; North, Austr. Mus. Gat., No, 12, pp, 360, 1889. 
Pufflnus obscurus (not Gmehn) Elwes, Ibis, 1859, p. 397. 
Puffinus brevicaudus id., ib., p. 398 ; Finsch, Joum. fiir Omith., 1870, p. 371. 
Nectris brevicauda Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad,, 1864, p. 127, 
Puffinus {Nectris) brevicaudus Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1877, Vol. II., p. 202. 
Puffinus tenuirostris (not Temminck) Finsch, Joum. fiir Omith. 1874, p. 210 ; Salvadori, 
Omith, Papua, Vol. III., p. 462, 1882 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 230, 
1888 (pars) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1888, p. 356 ; Hutton, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.), 1893, 
p. 749 ; Salvin, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 388, 1896 (pars) ; Hall. Key, Birds 
Austr., p. 93, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 882, 1901 ; id.. Emu, 
Vol. V., p. 30, 1905 ; BuUer, Suppl. Birds New Zeal., Vol. I., p. 104, 1905 (pars) ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 93, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 16, 1908 ; 
Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 149, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 165, 1910. 
Distribution. Seas of East Australia ; Tasmania ; New Zealand? 
Adult male. Upper-surface sooty-black, including the head, entire back, wings, and tail, 
with pale margins to some of the feathers ; primary-quills pale brown on the inner 
webs ; secondaries inclining to hoary-grey, the whole of the under-surface sooty- 
brown, somewhat paler on the throat, and darker on the under tail-coverts ; under 
wing-coverts sooty-brown, becoming ash-brown on the greater series ; “ Bill dark 
slate, tarsus slate, eyes brown ” (Tregellas). Total length 390 ; culmen (exp.) 32, 
wing 280, tail 82, tarsus 52 mm. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nestling. Covered with brown down, paler on the under-surface. 
Nest. At the end of a burrow, which is sometimes 4 feet long. 
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