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PELAGODROMA MARINA 



323. Pelagodroma marina (Lath.)— THE FRIGATE-PETREL. 



Procellaria marina Latham, Index Orn., 11, p. S2G (1790 — Ocean, 37° 



S. lat.). 



Pelagodroma marina (Latham), Saunders, p. 735. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Two. One picked up dead Walney 

 Island (Lanes.) Nov., 1890 (H. A. Macpherson, Ibis, 1891, p. 602). 

 Young female caught ahve Colonsav (I. Hebrides) Jan. 1, 1897 

 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. S.N.H., 1897, p/88). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Southern oceans, breeding in Australian 

 and New Zealand seas, and again in middle Atlantic, where it nests 

 on Cape Verde and Salvage Islands. Occurring casually off Massa- 

 chusetts coast in North America. 



PUFFINUS -e DGCURU S ASS1N\\L\S ^ 



324. Puffinus Qbsci ir us godmani Allen — THE LITTLE DUSKY 

 SHEARWATER. 



Puffinus godmani Allen, Auk, 1908, p. 339. (Madeira. From literature.*) 

 Puffinus obscurus atlanticus Rothschild and Hartert, Bull. B.O.C., xxvn, 

 p. 43 (1911 — Xorth Atlantic Islands. Type from Porto Santo near 

 Madeira), t 



Puffinus obscurus (nee Gmelin), Yarrell, iv, p. 27 ; P. assimilis nee Gould, 

 Saunders, p. 743 ; P. bailloni Bonaparte, Godman, Mon. Petrels, p. 138. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Six. One caught on board-ship off 

 Bull Rock (Cork) May 6, 1853 {Birds Ireland, p. 395). Male found 

 dead near Bungay (Suffolk) about April 10, 1858 (Saunders, p. 743). 

 Female picked up near Bexhill (Sussex) Dec. 28, 1900 (W. R. But- 

 terfield, Bull. B.O.C., xi, p. 45). Male caught near Lydd (Kent) 

 Nov. 27, 1905 (N. F. Ticehurst, op.c, xvi, p. 38 ; c/. Brit. B.,11, p. 373). 

 Female picked up dead St. Leonards (Sussex) Oct. 27, 1911 (H. W. 

 Ford-Lindsav, op.c, v, p. 253). Male picked up dead Pevensey Sluice 

 (Sussex) Nov. 15, 1911 (H. F. Witherby, I.e.). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Islands in eastern parts of northern half 

 of Atlantic Ocean : Cape Verdes, Canaries, Madeira and neighbouring 

 islands, Azores. Replaced by other subspecies in western j^art of 

 north Atlantic (east coast of United States, Bahamas, Bermudas), 

 on Mascarene Islands (Seychelles, Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar), 

 in Australian and New Zealand seas, on Galapagos Islands, and in 

 central Pacific Ocean (the last P. obscurus obscurus (Gm.)). 



* Professor Allen, without examining specimens, gave a name to the 

 Madeiran race, which had already been described in detail, 

 t See Nov. ZooL, 1899, pp. 194-7. 



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