BTJLWER’S PETREL, 
Proceltaria Bulwer ii, 
Thalassidroma Bulwerii 
Jardine. Selby. 
Gould. 
ProceVaria. Procella — A storm. 
Bulwerii—Of Bulwer. Buhver’s 
This species appears to have been discovered as a new one 
by Mr. Bulwer, when a resident in Madeira. It inhabits that 
and the adjacent small islands. 
As a British Bird, it takes its place on the authority of 
the occurrence of a specimen on the banks of the River Ure, 
or Yore, near Tanfield, and which was placed on record by 
Colonel Dalton, of Sleningford Hall, near Ripon. Meyer speaks 
of having been informed of another obtained near York, and 
a third taken on a ship off Scarborough. 
In flight it may readily, from the nature of its habits, be 
supposed to excel. 
Its note is, no doubt, of the same ‘leggiardo’ character as 
that of the other species. 
Male; length, from ten and a half to eleven inches; bill, 
black; iris, dark brown, nearly black. Head, crown, neck, 
nape, chin, and throat, sooty black; breast, sooty black, with 
a slight tinge of greyish brown; back, nearly uniform sooty 
black. Greater wing coverts, sooty black, the edges rather 
paler; lesser wing coverts, primaries, secondaries, tertiaries, and 
greater and lesser under wing coverts, sooty black. The tail 
is also sooty black, and consists of twelve feathers arranged 
in a wedge-shaped form, the centre plumes being two inches 
longer than the outside ones; tail coverts, sooty black. Legs, 
toes, and claws, dark reddish brown j webs, dark brown. 
