412 Mr. O. Salvin on the Occurrence of 



A congener of the present bird, (E. hcesitata, has been killed 

 on more than one occasion in Europe, its home being, if it 

 still liveSj the Windward Islands of the West Indies. Bul- 

 tveria columbina, well known as an inhabitant of the seas of 

 the Canary Islands and Madeira, has lately been traced to 

 the Sandwich Islands, and Puffinus griseus has a nearly 

 world-wide range. Other instances of equally extensive 

 range in members of this family could easily be mentioned. 



The history of (E. torquata is not a long one, and the main 

 facts concerning it have been already given by me in this 

 Journal (Ibis, 1888, p. 359) . It was first discovered by John 

 Macgillivray on Aneiteum, one of the New Hebrides group 

 of islands, and was described by him in the ' Zoologist ' for 

 1860 (xviii. p. 7133). Macgillivray obtained several speci- 

 mens, some of which passed into the British Museum, some 

 into that of Leyden, and two were kindly ceded to me some 

 years ago in exchange by the late John Henry Gurney. All 

 of these appear to have had Macgillivray's labels attached 

 to them. The British Museum specimens were included in 

 Gray's ' Hand-list ' (iii, p. 107) as Procellaria aneiteumensis . 

 The Leyden birds were identified by Schlegel with Gmelin's 

 P. desolata (Mus. Pays-Bas, Procell. p. 13), a name strictly 

 applicable to a Prion found on the Island of Desolation, better 

 known as Kerguelen's Land. 



Macgillivray states that CE. torquata is found on the islands 

 of Tanna and Erromango, as well as on Aneiteum, and I have 

 seen specimens from Fiji, obtained by Kleinschmit when 

 collecting for the Godeffroy Museum in 1878. 



Macgillivray says that on Aneiteum it breeds in burrows 

 on the wooded mountain-tops in the interior of the island, 

 the highest of which attains an elevation of 2700 feet. A 

 young bird, not many days old, and covered with black down, 

 was brought to him on the 14th February, but he did not 

 obtain any eggs. The native name, he adds, is " Kat^bu." 



CE. torquata is a typical member of the genus (Estrelata, 

 but belongs to the smaller, less robust section. It is, per- 

 haps, most nearly allied to a species found further to the 

 northward in the Pacific, which I described in 1888 as (E. hy~ 



