BULWER'S PETREL. 295 



which was shot in Cardigan Bay in November or December, 

 1889, must have rounded Cape Horn and wandered north. 

 The typical bird is slate-grey on the head, back, wings, upper 

 tail-coverts, and tail, and there is a grey band across the breast ; 

 the mantle and coverts are slightly mottled with brown ; the 

 forehead, chin, and throat, and the under parts below the 

 breast, are white. Some birds, however, have the whole of the 

 under parts below the neck suffused with grey ; the Welsh 

 example is of this form. The bill and legs are as in the last 

 species. Length, ii'$ ins. Wing, 87 ins. Tarsus, i in. 



Kermadec or Schlegel's Petrel. Pterodroma negkcta 

 (Schleg.). 



The only known breeding place of this petrel is in the 

 Kermadec group in the New Zealand seas, and like the last 

 species the one British example had travelled far. In April, 

 1908, one was found dead, after strong south-westerly gales, 

 beneath a tree at Tarporley, Cheshire. Prof. R. Newstead 

 examined it in the flesh, and I saw it and the carcase a day or 

 two later. Sharpe and Du Cane Godman, to whom I showed 

 it, confirmed our identification, though the tarsi and proximal 

 third of the toes were bluish grey and not yellow, as described 

 by Salvin. The distal portion of the feet was black. This 

 species, however, is known to be variable, and our specimen — 

 now in the Chester Museum — is of the dark phase, uniform 

 brown, slightly paler on the under parts. The bill was black, 

 the irides dark hazel. Length, 15 ins. Wing, ii'i ins. Tarsus, 

 1-5 ins. 



Bulwer's Petrel. Bnhveria hihueri (Jard. and Selby). 



In May, 1837, a dead Bulwer's Petrel was picked up in York- 

 shire, but the bird was not recorded again until 1903 ; since 

 then four have been found in autumn or winter in Sussex. The 



