404 Mr. J. H. Gurney on the 



on board his yaclit^ missed no opportunities, met with 

 L. melanocephalus and L. canus at Toulon, and was further 

 told of many Gulls breeding on the islet of La Gabinera, to 

 which fact it perhaps owes its name, '' Gabian " being a 

 Gull in the native dialect. 



Black-headed Gull. Larus ridibundus. 



The " Mouette rieuse^' must be far commoner than 

 L. melanocephalus , yet it is curious, as shown by M. Ternier's 

 maps, in how few of the inland Departments of France 

 L. ridibundus is met with commonly, though a good many 

 examples are to be seen on the sea-coast. 



Cape Petrel. Duption capensis. 



We learn from Degland and Gerbe that a " Petrel Damier " 

 {D. capensis) was killed at Hyeres in October 1844 by 

 M. Besson, the bird-stuffer, the same who the year after, as 

 Prof. Newton points out, shot the first Ardea melanocephala. 

 Besides this, two were obtained at Bercy on the Seine, a 

 suburb of Paris ; two also in the Department of Sarthe 

 prior to 1878 (M. Amb. Gentil) ; and one, according to 

 Van Kempen, at Dunkerque in 1880. D. capensis has also 

 been recorded twice in England, once in Wales, and once in 

 Ireland ; but six are known to have been on one occasion 

 released in the English Channel (Ibis, 1867, p. 188), and the 

 practice may have been followed by sailors elsewhere. 



Mediterranean Shearwater. Puffinus knhli. 



One in Cannes Museum, where the curator showed me a 

 specimen of Procellaria pelagic a which had been picked up 

 on the shore. The latter I have observed off the Balearic 

 Islands — near which I have also seen Puffinus kuhli. It is 

 a common Mediterranean bird, both in the east and in the 

 west. 



Levantine Shearwater. Puffinus yelkouanus. 



In Jaubert's 'List' the name of P. yelkouanus must be 

 substituted for P. ohscurus, and P. kuhli for P. cinereus, 

 which also I suppose Pellicot's Procellaria puffinus to be. 

 P. yelkouanus breeds in Corsica (Ibis, 1885, p. 48) ; but I 



