242 Additions to the B.O.U. List of British Birds. [Ibis, 



p. 288. Add:- 



Puffimis kuhli borealis. 

 North Atlantic Great Shearwater. 



Puffinus borealis Cory, Bull. Nuttall Oni. Club, vi. 1881, 

 p. 84 : off coast of Massachusetts. 



A Siiearwater washed ashore near St. Leonards, Sussex, 

 14 March, 1914, has been identified by Mr. Witherby with 

 the North Atlantic form of the Great Shearwater (British 

 Birds, ix. 1916, pp. 203, 208). 



This subspecies is the one recently named Puffinus kuhli 

 fortunatus by Mr. Bannerman; it breeds on the Azores, 

 Madeira group, and Canaries, and is found off the north- 

 east coasts of the United States in autumn. It has also 

 occurred on the coasts of Portugal. 



p. 289. Add :— 



Puffinus rherminieri boydi. 

 Cape Verde Little Shearwater. 



Puffinus Vherminieri boydi Mathews, Birds Australia, ii. 

 1912, p. 70: Cape Verde Islands. 



Two Little Shearwaters, one picked up at Pevensey, 

 4 December, 1914, the other caught alive at West 

 St. Leonards on 2 January, 1915, were examined by 

 Mr. Witherby and prouovmced to belong to tlie Cape 

 Verde form of the Little Shearwater (British Birds, ix. 

 1916, pp. 201,208). 



This form, apart from the present record, is only known 

 from the Cape Verde Islands. 



p. 323. For Serinus icterus read 



Serinus mozambicus. 



Fringilla mozambica P. L S. Miiller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. 

 1776, p. 163 : Mozambique. 



Mr. Iredale informs us that the oldest name for this 

 species is the one quoted above ; both it and J'rinffilla 

 ictera Bonn, k, Vieill. 1823 are based on the figure in 

 ' Planches Enlumiuees,' pi. 36. figs. 1 & 2. 



