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[Local name : Cagavro. 



The Ponta Delgada Museum cou tains : 

 a—e. Villa Island, Santa Maria.] 



This Shearwater is very common througliout the seas of the Azores, and 

 during onr journevs between tlic dift'erent islands we steamed through large 

 flocks either resting on the water, or sl;imrainj;' over the waves, in their character- 

 istic manner. The greatest number were to be seen about the central group 

 of islands, especially round (iraeiosa, San Jorge, Pico and Fayal. We saw 

 none m the neighbourhood of Corvo, and though we sent men in the middle 

 of April to several places on Flores where tliose Siiearwaters were known to 



Greater Isle of Cabras, Terceira. A brceding-pl.ace of Pit_ffinus 

 hiihlU Jiavir<>»{ris, and of iminunse numbers of Itock-Doves. 



breed, we were unable to procure specimens. Towards the end of May, during 

 our stay at San Hoque, on the north coast of Pico, numbers of " I'agarros " had 

 arrived at their breeding-places in tlie rocks below tlie village and flew over 

 our house at night uttering their weird (Ty (cf. (irant, Ibis 1896. pj). 47-50). 



When we visited Santa Maria early in March we procured a few speci- 

 mens captured in the holes in the rocks on Villa Islet, bnt at that season only 

 a small number were to be found in their broeding-haunts. On our return, 

 however, to that island on June 1st we found a large colony had arrived, and 

 nearly all the nesting-holes contained a bird sitting on its single white egg, which 

 was either fresh or only slightly incubated. On the ("abras or (ioat Islets, off the 

 south of Terceira, which we visited on May ^Oth, about a dozen birds were found 

 sitting, but many nesting-places were still empty, and the fishermen who accom- 



