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We ])iociired a single siiecimeu of Harcourt's Stormy Petrel taken in a hole 

 in the rocks on Praya Island on April 25th; on June 1st we picked np a dead 

 specimen on Villa Islet, Santa Maria, but, at this season, the birds had not 

 commenced to breed, and all their nesting-Iioles on that breeding-station were 

 empty. The fishermen knew the bird well, and Senhor Joao S. (i. da Camara 

 kindly promised to procm'e specimens later on and forward them to England in 

 spirits. This he did, the birds having been captured in September.] 



16. Oceanodroma leucorrhoa (Vieill.). 



A specimen from Ponta Delgada, San Miguel, was presented by the Ponta 

 Delgada Museum. 



[There is a specimen of Leach's Petrel killed at Ponta Delgada in the 

 Museum at Angra, Terceira.J 



17. [Oceanites oceanicus (Knhl.). 



The only record of the occurrence of Wilson's Petrel in the Azores is that 

 given by Mr. F. D. Godman, who met with numbers of the species 35 miles 

 west of Fayal, and procured some specimens, now in the British Museum.] 



lb. [Bulweria bulweri (Jard.). 



Thdaxsidi-oiiia hiilweri, Simroth, Arch./. Xaliay. i. p. 194 (1888). 



Said by Drouet to be an accidental visitor to Plores and Corvo.] 

 10. Puffinus kuhlii flavirostris (Gould). 



Pi-iii-eliurui l.iildii, Boie, /«s, 1835. p. 2iil (Corsica). 



ProcelUiria jlai-iroslrix, Gould, Ann. <{■ M'l'j. Nut. Ilisl. xiii. (1844) p. ,^li5 (uear Gape of Good 



Hope). 

 PuffinuH rinenus Simroth (nee Gmel.), Arch.f. Xatunj. i. p. Ii14 (1888). 



The form from the Atlantic Ocean ditt'ers from /-•. kiihlii. kuJdii of the 

 Mediterranean as follows : The bill is larger, generally thicker, higher, and 

 longer ; but males must be compared with males, females with females. The 

 crown and sides of the head are generally darker, more slaty, being paler and more 

 cinereous in F. k. kuhlii. The inner web of the outer primaries is uniform dark, 

 showing no white whatever beyond the under wing-coverts, while in P. kuhlii 

 kuhlii a large white mark or some white mottling extends beyond the under 

 wing-coverts, sometimes to beyond the middle of the feathers. Very rarely this 

 character is not developed. P. kuhlii kuhlii breeds in the Mediterranean, P. /■. 

 Jlucirostrix on the islands of the Atlantic : Azores, Canaries, uear Madeira, etc. 



Mr. Grant collected the following specimens : 



1 (J, 2 ¥ ?, Villa Island, Sta. Maria, 4. iii. lOiKi. 



1 (J, 1 ?, rocks below Mt. Brazil, Terceira, 9. iv. 1903. 



2 c?(?, 2 ? ? ad., Praya Island, Graciosa, 2(5. iv. 19u3. 



" Iris brown. Bill yellowish-horn, nostrils, base and tip of rhamjihothoeca 

 dusky. Legs [lale flesh-colour, blackisli on outer side of tarsus, outer toe, joints 

 and webs." 



