Puffinus leucomelas Temminck, Pl. Col. (1836), pl. 587;
Ridgway, Man. North Am. Bds. (1887), 62; Salvin, Cat. Birds
Brit. Mus. (1896), 25, 370; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 123;
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 19.
Luzon (Cuming). Japan and Korea south to Australia.
"Adult male.--Upper surface brown, feathers of body and wings with
paler dusky edges; anterior portion of crown, forehead, sides of head,
and neck white, each feather with a dark disk, which is narrow on the
forehead and sides of the head and neck, giving a streaked appearance;
entire under surface white; under wing-coverts white, interior ones
with dark shafts, those near the edge of wing with dark disks; axillars
pure white; tail brown, the inner webs of the lateral rectrices
near the base white; primaries black throughout. Bill horn-color;
feet flesh-color, the outer toe a little darker. Length, about 480;
wing, 330; outer rectrices, 102; central rectrices, 142.
"Female.--Similar to the male." (Salvin.)
"Lower parts white; top and sides of head white, spotted and streaked
with blackish. Wing, 286 to 318; tail, 149 (graduated for about 46);
culmen, 47; tarsus, 47; middle toe with claw, 33." (Ridgway.)
The only record of this species for the Philippine Islands is based
on the specimen collected by Cuming.
Order LARIFORMES.