44.6 OCEANODROMA LEUCORKHOA.—O. CASTRO. 
[§ 5144. One-—Dun, St. Kilda, 11 July, 1887. “ With 
bird.” 
Brought to my brother Edward and myself, on board Mr. Henry Evans's 
yacht ‘ Erne,’ with the bird, which had been caught in the hole with it, and 
was produced, alive, from a stocking into which it had been thrust. After 
having looked at it sufficiently to satisfy ourselves that it wes a real Leach’s 
Petrel, we let it go, rather to the astonishment of the bringer, and were pleased 
to see that it flew offapparently none the worse for its temporary captivity. We 
had arrived off the village of St. Kilda late in the evening of the 9th, after 
steaming all round the group of islands. The next day, being Sunday, the 
people held no communication with us, but very early in the morning of the 11th, 
a party of them went to the Dun, over which we saw their ropes spread in various 
directions, and a few hours later they returned bringing their spoils, of which 
this egg and its parent were chief—the rest consisting mainly of Puftins. 
This was the only Petrel’s egg that was brought to us, for according to the 
men all the Fulmars’ were hatched. It was much incubated and I did not 
empty it till my return to Cambridge three days later, when I placed the 
almost fully developed embryo in spirit, to be kept for Dr. Gadow’s use. | 
[§ 5145. One.—St. Kilda, June, 1895. 
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Brought with a second, and some other common eggs, all ready blown, on 
board Mr. Evans’s yacht ‘ Aster,’ 25 June, 1895. I did not see the man or 
boy who brought them ; but I doubt not it is, as it was said to be, a Leach’s 
Petrel. Sir Archibald Geikie, who was with us, took all the rest.] 
5146. Zhree.—Dun, St. Kilda, 1896. 
Brought on board the ‘ Aster,’ as the custom is, soon after our arrival there 
7 July, by the people, some of them, particularly M‘Queen, of Gare-fowl 
celebrity, I had seen before. They brought five, and Sir A. Geikie took the 
other two. These fromthe Dun. We were told that the Messrs, Kearton had 
procured a good many. | 
OCEANODROMA CASTRO (Vernon-Harcourt). 
5147. One—Desertas. From Dr. Frere, 1861. 
This was given to Dr. Frere, as he told me, by Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston as 
having been taken by himself. The species was at that time supposed to be 
Leach’s Petrel, from which the present was first distinguished in 1851 by 
Mr. Edward Vernon-Harcourt (Sketch of Madeira, pp. 123, 166}; but a few 
years after (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xv. pp. 436, 437) he seemed to 
doubt his former discrimination and included it in his list of the Birds of 
Madeira as Leach’s Petrel. | 
