Subfamily PUFFININÆ.
Genus PUFFINUS Brisson, 1760.
Nasal tube obliquely truncate, its partition thick.
75. PUFFINUS LEUCOMELAS Temminck.
SIEBOLD’S SHEARWATER.
- 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.)