PUFFINID.E. 749 



BULWER'S PETREL. 



BuLWERiA BULWERi (Jardine & Selby). 



The only authentic instance of the occurrence of this species in 

 Great Britain is that of an example found dead on the banks of the 

 Ure near Tanfield in Yorkshire on May 8th 1837, which was brought 

 to Capt. Dalton (son of the Col. Dalton who provided Bewick with 

 the Storm-Petrel figured in his ' British Birds '). This specimen was 

 described and figured by Gould in Pt. xxii. of his ' Birds of Europe ' 

 (1837); but he did not include the species in his 'Birds of Great 

 Britain ' (1873) ^^^ omitted all mention of his former sponsorship in 

 the Introduction, which at one time made me suspect that later infor- 

 mation had cast some doubt on the statement. However, Messrs. 

 W. Eagle Clarke and James Carter took considerable pains to investi- 

 gate the matter, and were successful in tracing the identical bird, 

 which is now in the Museum at York. Further details are given 

 in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society for 1887, p. 562, and 

 also in 'The Naturalist' for 1888, p. 156. 



The first published account of this Petrel is given by Jardine and 

 Selby (111. Orn. ii. pi. 65), who conferred on it the name of 

 Procellaria bulweri, after a Mr. Bulwer, who was for some time a 

 resident in Madeira, and to whom they were indebted for the 

 specimen they described and figured. Webb, Berthelot and Moquin- 

 Tandon state (' Ornithologie Canarienne,' 1 841) that this species is 

 very common on the small island of Alegranza, where it breeds in 



