Petrel new to the British List. 603 



November 1888, I found his house full of Guillemots and 

 other birds that had just been brought to him from Walney, 

 On the present occasion the birds brought to him were 

 various, but being hardly convalescent from influenza, and 

 out at his work all day, he only skinned two Petrels, a Little 

 Auk, and one other bird"^. He skinned these birds as well 

 as he could, for they were not fresh, and put them by in a 

 glass-topped box until I should call, which was not until the 

 beginning of the following July. He then showed them to 

 me, and offered to give them to me, as he considered that he 

 could not mount such rough skins to his satisfaction. I had 

 great difficulty in inducing him to accept half a sovereign 

 for the birds, and he was then anxious to make me a present 

 of a white Tardus iliacus, as he thought I was paying him 

 too much. I at once recognized the smaller Petrel as 

 Oceanites oceanicus ; but not knowing the larger bird, I sent 

 the two skins to Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.H.S., just as I received 

 them, the sand of Walney still adhering to their feathers, espe- 

 cially to those of the smaller bird. Mr. Salvin, whose great 

 kindness I specially desire to acknowledge, has not only 

 identified the unknown bird as a typical example of Pelago- 

 Aroma marina, which he thinks may perhaps breed in the 

 Canary group, but has compared both skins with the British 

 Museum series, and has further favoured me with some very 

 valuable notes, of which I now avail myself. 



Pelagodroma marina was first noticed during Captain 

 Cook's first voyage, and a specimen obtained on the 23rd 

 December, 1768, in lat. 37° S., off the east coast of South 

 America, about opposite the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. 

 It was sketched by Parkinson, one of the artists who 

 accompanied Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks in the 

 ' Endeavour.' This sketch is now in the British Museum, 

 where it appears as "No. 13" under Solander's unpub- 

 lished name Procellaria (Bquorea, in a MS. volume called 

 ' Banks's Drawings.' It then became the Frigate Petrel of 



* The exact part of tlie island where tlie Petrels were found is the 

 north-western beach, nearly opposite the windmill. 



