Storm-petrels (Hydrobatidae)

Black Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma melania) - HBW 1, p. 270

French: Océanite noir German: Schwarzwellenläufer Spanish: Paíño Negro

Taxonomy: Procellaria melania Bonaparte, 1854, coast of California.
Possibly conspecific with O. matsudairae; these two sometimes isolated in separate genus, Loomelania, in view of long tarsi. Monotypic.

Distribution: Islands off W California (USA) and Baja California and in most of Gulf of California.