_Puffinus cuneatus_ Salvin, Ibis, 1888, p. 353. (Type locality,
Krusenstern Island==Ailuk, Marshall Islands, _fide_ Fisher, Auk,
63, 1946, pp. 587-588.)
_Puffinus cuneatus_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 80 (Krusenstern); Salvin,
Cat. Birds British Mus., 25, 1896, p. 371 (Krusenstern); Godman,
Monogr. Petrels, pt. 2, 1908, p. 76 (Marshalls).
_Puffinus pacificus cuneatus_ Mathews, Birds Australia, 2, 1912,
p. 84 (Marshall Group); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 1, 1931,
pp. 55-56 (Krusenstern); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942,
p. 209 (Krusenstern); Fisher, Auk, 63, 1946, pp. 587-588 (Ailuk).
_Thyellodroma cuneata cuneata_ Mathews and Iredale, Ibis, 1915, p.
597 (Krusenstern); Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927,
p. 113 (Marshall Group).
_Thyellodroma cuneata_ Oberholser, Auk, 34, 1917, p. 474
(Krusenstern).
_Thyellodroma pacificia cuneata_ Mathews, Novit. Zool., 39, 1934,
p. 186 (Caroline Islands).
_Geographic range._--Pescadores east to the Hawaiian Islands and
south to eastern Micronesia. In Micronesia: Marshall
Islands--Ailuk.
_Remarks._--Osbert Salvin received two specimens of this shearwater from
H. J. Snow, who got them at the Krusenstern Islands in 1883. In
describing them, Salvin (1888:353) comments that the locality is
seemingly in the Marshall Islands at approximately 10°17´ N. and 190° W.
This locality was confusing to Seebohm (1891:191) who thought it was
between the Hawaiians and the Marshalls, while Hartert (1926:352)
decided it was really Krusenstern Rocks in the Hawaiian Group. To clear
the matter up, Fisher (1946:587-588) writes that Salvin was correct and
suggests that the name of the island should be the better established
one, Ailuk, rather than the little used one, Krusenstern.
_P. p. cuneatus_ resembles _P. p. chlororhynchus_ but is whiter on the
underparts, especially the breast. These two subspecies are inseparable
according to the twenty-fourth supplement to the American
Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds (Auk, vol. 66,
1949:281).
=Puffinus tenuirostris= (Temminck)