PROCELLARIIDjE. 
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Puffinus affinis Anon., Penny Cyclop, vol. xviii. p. 42, 1840, error for assimilis. 
Puffinus australis Gould, Birds of Austr. vol. vii., Dec. 1st, 1848, text to pi. 59, 
ex Eyton. as synonym of assimilis. 
Puffinus assimilis hoivensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. ii. p. 125, Jan. 28th, 
1915 : Lord Howe Island. 
Distr. —Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. (East Australia?) 
Puffinus assimilis kempi Mathews. 
Puffinus assimilis kempi Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. ii. p. GO, 
May 30th, 1912 : Chatham Islands. 
Distr .—Chatham Islands (breeding). New Zealand. 
Puffinus assimilis tunneyi Mathews. 
Puffinus assimilis tunneyi Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. ii. p. 71. 
pi. 73, May 30th, 1012: Boxer Island, South-West Australia. 
(Fig. Math. pi. 73.) 
Distr. —South-West Australian Seas. 
Puffinus assimilis munda (Salvin). 
Nectris munda Salvin, in liowley’s Miscell. vol. i. p. 23G, May 1876: 
lat. 48° 27', long. 93°, South Pacific (breeding-place unknown). 
Distr. —South Pacific (?). 
Puffinus assimilis dichrous F. & H. 
Puffinus diclirous Finsch & Ilartlaub, Faun. Centr. Polyn. p. 244, 
1867: McKean’s Island, Phoenix Group. (Fig. Godman, Mongr. 
pi. 34?) 
Puffinus optatus Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy. Heft viii. p. 44, 1875, as 
synonym of dichrous ex Hartl. & Finsch, Cat. Mus. Godoff. v. 1874, p. 15, 
n. n. 
Distr. —Phoenix Group to Samoa. 
Puffinus assimilis minor (Hartl.). 
Puffinus opisthomelas var. minor Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 
1867, p. 823 : Pelew Islands. 
Puffinus tenebrosus Pelzeln, Ibis, Jan. 1873, p. 70, fig-. 1 on p. 50: loc. un¬ 
known =Pelew Islands. 
Distr. —Pelew Islands. 
Genus REINHOLDIA Mathews. 
Reinholdia Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 107, Dec. 24th, 
1912. Type (by original designation) : Puffinus reinholdi 
Mathews — Procellaria gavia Forster. 
Cinathisma Hull, Emu, vol. xv. p. 205, Jan. 1916 (ex Bull. No. 5, R. A. O. U. 
21/12/15). Type (by original designation): C . cyaneoleuca Hull. 
Reinholdia gavia (Forster). 
Distr. —Seas of New South Wales and Victoria, New Zealand, 
New Caledonia, and New Hebrides. 
