_Procellaria tenuirostris_ Temminck, Pl. Col., livr. 99, 1835, text
to pl. 587. (Type locality, Seas north of Japan and shores of
Korea.)
_Puffinus tenuirostris tenuirostris_ Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13,
no. 2, 1936, p. 15 (Guam).
_Puffinus tenuirostris_ Yamashina, Tori, 10, 1940, p. 677
(Kinajon, Marshall Islands); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 210 (Kinajon, Marshall Islands).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in Tasmania, southeastern Australia,
islands in Bass Straits, and Bounty Islands. Ranges north to the
Bering Sea. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam?; Marshall
Islands--Kinajon.
_Character._--A rather large shearwater with short, rounded tail;
upper parts sooty brown; underparts paler and more grayish than
back; throat may be occasionally whitish; bill lead-gray; feet
grayish, browner on outer side.
_Remarks._--On migration this shearwater probably reaches most parts of
Micronesia. It has been recently recorded by the Japanese at Kinajon in
the Marshall Islands. Bryan (1936:15) includes this species as a "chance
arrival" in his list of the birds of Guam.
=Puffinus nativitatis= Streets