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Distribution. — Abroad. — Western and southern Pacific Ocean, 

 one recorded from Japan. 



BULWERIA BULWERII 



S33. Bulweria bulwerii (Jard. and Selby) — BULWER'S 

 PETREL. 



Procellaria bulwerii Jardine and Selby, Illustr. Oni , [i, pi. Go and 

 text (1828 — Madeira or near by). 



Bulweria cohimbina (Moqiiin-Tandon), Yarrell, iv, p. 34 ; B. hidiceri 

 (Jardine and Selby), Saunders, p. 749. 



Distribution. — England. — Five. One found dead Tanfield (Yorks.) 

 May 8, 1837 (Saunders, p. 749). One found dead near Beachy 

 Head (Sussex), Feb. 3, 1903 (N. F. Ticehurst, BiilL B.O.C., xiii, 

 p. 51). Female found dead near St. Leonards (Sussex), Feb. 4. 

 1904 (W. R. Butterfield, op.c, xiv, p. 49). Male picked up near 

 Winchelsea (Sussex), Sept. 4, 1908 (C. J. Carroll, op.c, xxiii, p. 32 ; 

 cf. Brit. B, II, pp. 282, 373). Male picked up Pevensey (Sussex), 

 Oct. 24, 1911 (H. W. Ford-Lindsay, Brit. B., v, p. 198). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Temperate parts of north Pacific and 

 eastern temperate north Atlantic, casual in Greenland. 



[DAPTION CAPENSE 



Daptioncapense (L.)— THE CAPE PIGEON. 



Procellaria capensis Linna?us, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 132 (1758 — Cape 



of Good Hope). 



Daption capense, Yarrell, iv, p. 11 (in text) ; Saunders, p. 750 (in text). 



Distribution. — Examples of this species, an inhabitant of the 

 southern seas, have been recorded from the Dovey, 1879, near 

 Dublin, 1881, and near Bournemouth, 1894, but former writers 

 have excluded them as not being genuine wanderers with some 

 reason.] 



FULMARUS GLACIALIS 



334. Fulmarus glacialis glacialis (L.)— THE FULMAR 

 PETREL. 



Procellaria glacialis Linnaeus, Fauna Svecica, ed. ii, p. 51 (1761 — 



Arctic Sea). 



Fulmarus glacialis (Linnseus), Yarrell, iv, p. 1 ; Saunders, p. 751. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Resident. During last twelve years 

 has steadily increased as breeding-bird, and now nests in O. 

 Hebrides, besides St. Kilda (where increased), N. Rona, Flannans 

 and Barra and possibly Shiant Isles ; Shetlands some thirteen sites ; 

 Fair Isle ; Orkneys three or four places ; Handa Isle (off Sutherland), 



