Order PROGELLARIIFORMES. 
No. 10. 
Family PR0CELLAR11DM, 
HEMIPUFFINUS CARNEIPES. 
(HTJLIiIANTJ S.) 
FLESHY-FOOTED PETREL. 
Hemipuffinus Iredale, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 20, August 2nd, 1913. Type (by mono- 
typy) : Pujfinus carneipes Gould. 
Puffinus carneipes Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 365, May 1st, 1844: near 
Cape Leeuwin, West Australia (fig. Gould Austr. VII., pi. 57 ; Mathews, Vol. II., pi. 76). 
Pujfinus carneipes hullianus Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 90, May 30th, 1912: Norfolk 
Island error == Lord Howe Island. 
Hemipuffinus carneipes hullianus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 319, Dec. 1912 ; id., Syst. Av. 
Australas., p. 114, 1927. 
Distribution. Lord Howe Island (breeding). 
Adult male. Crown of head, occiput, nape, hind-neck and fore-head dark smoky-brown, slightly 
tinged with grey, with the basal two-thirds of the feathers w T hitish-grey ; scapulars, lower 
back and rump smoky-brown, slightly margined with lighter brown; upper tail-coverts 
uniform smoky-brown ; quills uniform blackish-brown ; tail-feathers brownish-black; 
sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, chin and throat brown, strongly washed with slate-grey; 
sides of neck, fore-neck and remainder of the under-surface of the body uniform dusky-brown, 
with the bases of the feathers only a trifle lighter in colour : under wing-coverts and 
axillaries blackish-brown ; under aspect of quills brownish-grey. Bill light flesh-brown, 
eyes dark brown, feet almost white. Total length 520 mm. : culrnen 45, wing 318, 
tail 107, tarsus 53. Collected on Middle Beach, Lord Howe Island, on the 21st of 
January, 1914. 
Sexes. Alike. 
Nest. At the end of a burrow. 
Eggs. Many eggs were found on Lord Howe Island from December 8th to 16th, 1913. Birds of 
the year with large patches of down were found on April 27th and May 1st. They are like 
eggs of other Pujfinus but larger, and measure : 75 X47, 71 X 46%, 68 X 42 - 7, 67'*8 X 46 6, 
67 X 45, 73-8 X 46-5, 70 X 47%, 74% X 44, 69 X 44% 68% X 48, 66 X 47, 70 X 47 5, 
69 X 40-5, 73-5 X 46%, 74 X 46, 70 X 47% 68% X 46, 70 X 48, 70 X 46% 67 X 49, 
66-7 X 45, 70 X 46'2, 70 X 48% 69 X 43% 67% X 47% 62‘7 X 47, 65% X 44, 70% X 48'2, 
72-5 X 48, 72 X 46, 71 X 44, 70 X 46-5, 72% X 444, 70 X 48, 71 X 42% 69% X 47, 
62 X 42, 63 X 47 mm. 
Breeding-season. December. 
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