232 Dr Heineken on the Birds of Madeira. 



still, as its haunts are some way out at sea, and when visited 

 periodically, yet always by those who salt the young on the 

 spot, and are too indolent and indifferent to be at the trouble 

 of bringing away either living or uninjured specimens, I fail- 

 ed in obtaining a bird before May 1828, when I met with se- 

 veral at Porto Santo ; and in the following month sent one to 

 a friend in London, who promised to ascertain whether the spe- 

 cies was (as I suspected) new ; but I have not since heard a 

 word of either friend or bird, they being hath perhaps only 

 summer visitants. About a month since I accidentally learnt 

 that Sir William Jardine had a petrel from Madeira, which 

 he was inclined to think new ; and although my informer knew 

 nothing of either its size or colour, yet as, excepting one spe- 

 cimen of the Procellaria Anglorum which was taken last sum- 

 mer, I have never either seen or heard of any other than this 

 (our Anjinho), and the P. Puffinus (our Cagarra), I suspect 

 they must be the same. I have therefore left the specific name 

 open, to be filled up by that which Sir W. Jardine may have 

 given, supposing them to be identical and new ; but should they 

 prove distinct, and the one which I have described new also, the 

 provincial name " Anjinho," (pronounced as though spelt 

 " An-ji-gno**' in Italian,) will, I think, make as good a specific 

 one as any other. * 



Cypselus murarius ? (Tem.) 

 In the winter of 1827 one was brought to me with the whole 

 of the plumage black, but unfortunately it was thrown away 

 bv a servant before I had ascertained more than this fact, and 

 that it was truly a Cypselus. During the following summer I 

 received three, black with a white chin, measuring 7 inches 5 

 lines, and four much browner than any I had ever seen in En- 

 gland, (nearly dun in colour,) with white chins also ; evidently 

 very old birds, and measuring 7 inches 9 lines. Throughout 

 the last winter (although I applied to every one in the habit of 

 using a gun, ill health preventing me from doing so,) I did 

 not procure a single specimen of any description. So that I 



• Sir W. Jardine is of opinion that this species is new. He possesses 

 the p. Leachii from Madeira, which Dr H. does not mention, and also the 

 Cypselus murarius, and the black-chinned individual, which he thinks is 

 a distinct species, and probably midcscribed. — Ed. 



