_Puffinus chlororhynchus_ Lesson, Traité d'Ornith., 8, 1931, p.
613. (Type is from Shark's Bay, West Australia.)
_Puffinus sphenurus_ Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, p. 299 (Mortlock).
_Puffinus chlororhynchus_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool.
Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 80 (Luganor?); Godman,
Monogr. Petrels, pt. 2, 1908, p. 88 (Carolines); Kuroda, in
Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 33 (Luganor or Ruk?).
_Puffinus pacificus chlororhynchus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds,
rev., 1932, p. 187 (Lukunor or Truk?, Kusaie); Hand-list Japanese
Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 209 (Lukunor or Truk?, Kusaie).
_Geographic range._--Breeds at the Seychelles, Australia, Lord
Howe, Norfolk, and other islands in the Australian area. Ranges
throughout most of the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific
oceans. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam; Caroline
Islands--Lukunor or Truk?, Kusaie.
_Characters._--A large shearwater with long wedge-shaped tail;
upper parts sooty-brown with crown, neck, and wings darker and
forehead paler; under parts paler than upper parts; bill dark;
feet flesh-colored.
_Remarks._--This shearwater was taken by Kubary either at Lukunor or at
Truk in the Caroline Islands. At a later date, apparently between 1922
and 1932, the Japanese recorded the bird at Kusaie. In using this
subspecific name, I am following the Hand-list of Japanese Birds
(Hachisuka _et al._, 1932:187).
At Guam on August 10, 1931, Coultas obtained a male shearwater, which is
tentatively placed in this subspecies. Its measurements are as follows:
wing, 290; tail, 128; exposed culmen, 39; tarsus, 47. Coultas (field
notes) writes that he was told by natives that petrels nest and roost on
the high cliffs behind the city of Agaña on Guam. At sea south of the
eastern Caroline islands, Coultas obtained five other birds which appear
to be the same as the bird from Guam. All specimens are in the
collections of the American Museum of Natural History.
=Puffinus pacificus cuneatus= Salvin