562 PUFFINIDAt 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Similar to the nuptial 
plumage. 
Immature, male and female.—Resembles the adult 
plumage. 
Brak. Black. 
Freer. Yellow, except the distal halves of all but the 
outer pairs of toes, which are black. 
IRIDES. Brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH ... mas Boe el bi keseer sal, 
WING ae ere 7 Sats Otis 
BEAK ee nee te Sieve 
TARSO-METATARSUS it 
BULWER’S PETREL. Bulweria bulweri (Jardine and Selby). 
Coloured Figures.—Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pl. 614, 
fig. 2; Lilford, ‘ Coloured Figures,’ vol. vi, pl. 62. 
This Petrel, which breeds in the Madeira, Canary, and 
neighbouring Isles, and also inhabits the North Pacific 
Ocean, has on two occasions been captured on British soil. 
The first was found dead on the banks of the River Ure 
near Tanfield in Yorkshire, on May 8th, 1837 (Gould, 
‘Birds Of Europe,’ 1837). The record of the capture sub- 
sequently became somewhat wrapped in oblivion until 1887, 
when Mr. Eagle Clarke carefully traced the specimen, and 
had it placed in the Museum of York (Proc. Zool. Soc., 
1887, also ‘ The Naturalist,’ 1888, and ‘ Zoologist,’ 1888). 
The other specimen, a male, was picked up dead on the 
shore near Beechy Head, Sussex, on February 3rd, 1903, 
after heavy south-west gales. It was exhibited at the British 
Ornithologists’ Club (wide Bull. B.O.C., xcv, also N. F. 
'Ticehurst, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1903, p. 420). 
DESCRIPTIYE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial—Entire plumage brown- 
ish-black, with the feathers of the chin and greater wing- 
coverts edged with grey; tail, wedge-shaped. 
Adult female nuptial.Similar to the male plumage. 
