392 Canon Ti'istrain on the Eighth Volume 



after heavy weather, and examined a young Arctic Skua that 

 had recently beeu shot at Heudaye. 



173. Procellaria pelagica, Linn, 



174. Cymochorea leucorriioa, Vieill. 



The Storm-Petrel was observed during the winter gales. 

 I saw a Fork-tailed Petrel which had recently been obtained 

 at St. Jean-de-Luz ; and Philippe records two found dead on 

 the 29th October, after heavy weather, far inland at Campau 

 and Pierrefitte. 



175. PuFFiNus KUHLi (Boie) . 



It is the Mediterranean Shearwater, and not P. major 

 of the North Atlantic, which has been obtained on the coast 

 between St. Jean-de-Luz and Bayonne. 



176. Alca torda, Linn. 



177. Uria troile (Linn.). 



Both the Razorbill and Guillemot were common in the 

 bay in January. 



178. COLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS, Linn. 



The Red-throated Diver was identified in the bay, and I 

 believe I saw some individuals of the larger species. 



This is a poor list compared with that of M. Lacroix, which 

 contains nearly 350 species ; but if his example were followed, 

 and the birds of the coast of the Mediterranean as far as 

 Marseilles, with all the Warblers and Waders of the Camargue, 

 were included, it would be easy to add another fifty " on 

 my personal knowledge.''^ But the latter would scarcely be 

 Birds of the Pyrenees, and I have already strained a point iu 

 regard to the species found on the west coast. 



XL. — Notes on the Eighth Volume of the ' Catalogue of Birds 

 in the British Museum.' By H. B. Tristram, D.D., 

 F.R.S. 



No work more complete and comprehensive in its design 

 than the British Museum Catalogue has ever appeared on 



