The Possibility of Puffinus bermudx Nichols & Mowbray in the 
North Atlantic. — An old Shearwater skin presented by G. A. Boardman 
in 1867 to the Boston Society of Natural History, now M. C. Z. 73408, 
taken on the coast of Maine or New Brunswick by Dresser, was originally 
determined as Puffinus puffinus (Briinnich). Recently Mr. R. C. Murphy 
compared this specimen with the type of P. f. bermudce Nichols & Mowbray, 
and found it very similar. 
It therefore seems reasonable to suspect that former records of the 
! Manx Shearwater in the northwest Atlantic might really have been this 
Bermuda form.— W. Sprague Brooks, Boston Society of Natural History. 
4^-,*xxiy, Ap*., ^ ^ o(o 
