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proprietor. The specimens undernoted were all obtained upon 
one or other of the islands of the two groups above alluded 
to, and all of the species to which they belong may be con- 
sidered as permanent residents except Wstrelata mollis, which, 
until more evidence is forthcoming, can only be considered 
a strageler. I have added the native or Portuguese names. 
1. Pufinus kuhli (“ Cagarra”), the Mediterranean Shear- 
water—This species has frequently been recorded from 
Madeira as Pufiinus major, whose breeding haunts are not as 
yet certainly known. Puffinus kuhli is very common in the 
Mediterranean, and breeds on many rocky islands there, 
including Gozo, off Malta. Godman found it breeding in the 
Azores, and it doubtless breeds also in the Canary Islands. 
On the Selvages, a group lying between Madeira and the 
Canary Islands, it is found in great numbers, and the fishermen 
salt them for food, sometimes as many as twenty thousand 
Shearwaters being taken in a season, a few only of this 
number being P. anglorum. 
One specimen, Bugio, Desertas, July 1889. 
One egg, Deserta Grande, 17th March 1889. 
2. Puffinus obscurus (“ Pintainho”’), the Dusky Shearwater, 
is found on both sides of the Atlantic, and breeds in the 
Bermudas and Bahamas, and in 1888 was found nesting 
also in the West India Islands of Barbadoes and Grenada by 
Colonel Feilden and Mr Wells respectively. On this side, 
Mr Godman found it in the Canaries, where he believed it to 
breed. Vernon Harcourt obtained eggs on the Desertas. It 
much resembles the Manx Shearwater, except in its smaller 
size. It is said to breed earlier at Porto Santo than on the 
Desertas. No eggs of this species were sent. 
One specimen, Ilho de Cal, Porto Santo, July 1889. 
One specimen, Bugio, Desertas, August 1889. 
3. Pufiinus anglorum (‘ Boiero ”), Manx Shearwater.—Only 
an egg of this species was sent, but it is not uncommon in 
the neighbourhood of Madeira and the Canaries, and Godman 
found it nesting on the Azores. It is also found on the 
Selvages Islands. 
One egg, Bugio, Desertas, August 1889. 
4, Bulweria columbina (“ Anguiho”), Bulwer’s Petrel, 
named after a Mr Bulwer, long a resident in Madeira, is not 
