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their length; iris dark brown; bill black; tarsus and basal portions of toes yellow, tips black. 

 [ \v. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. A South Pacific species, whose range is as yet very imperfectly known. 

 It breeds on Raoul and Meyer Islands in the Kennadec group, and has been obtained on Juan 

 Fernandez. It has not been recorded from the Continent, but has been found dead on one 

 occasion in England (Cheshire, 1908). [F. c. u. J.] 



CAPPED-PETREL [Pterodroma kcesitdta (Kuhl) ; (Extrelata lia-sitdta (Kuhl). French, dlable 

 dnMotiri]. 



1. Description. Recognised by its black crown and the white collar round the neck. 

 Length about 14'5 in. [368 mm.]. Mantle brownish grey, shading into deep blackish brown 

 on the lower back, rump, shorter upper tail-coverts, and wings ; base of the tail and longer upper 

 tail-coverts, and the whole under surface, white ; bend of the wing blackish brown ; under 

 wing-coverts white; bill black; legs and base of toes light-coloured; extremity of webs and 

 toes black, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. Probably extinct now, but formerly bred in the western Tropical Atlantic. 

 Amongst its recorded breeding-places were the Lesser Antilles, where it formerly nested at the 

 Morne du Diable in the island of Dominica at 2000 feet, and also on Guadeloupe. Asa 

 straggler it has occurred in the United States (Florida, Long Island, New York State, Virginia, 

 Vermont, etc.), Canada (Toronto twice), possibly in N. France, and once in England in 1850. 

 [F. c. R. J.J 



COLLARED PETREL [Pterodroma brtvipes (Peale) ; (Estrelata brevipes (Peale)]. 



1. Description. As its name implies, has a blackish grey band, interrupted in front, across 

 the upper chest. Length about 12 in. [305 mm.]. Forehead and lores white ; top of the 

 head and below the eye deep brownish black, shading into blackish grey on the mantle ; wings 

 deep brownish black ; chin, throat, breast, and belly pure white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white ; edge of the wing black, [w. i>. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. Probably breeds in the Western and Southern Pacific. Macgillivray found 

 it nesting on Aneiteum in the New Hebrides, and specimens were obtained from Tanna and 

 Erromanga, and in the Fiji Isles. The type was secured near the southern ice barrier, in 

 lat. 68 S. It has been once recorded from Japan and once from the Welsh coast (Cardigan, 

 1889). [F. c. R. J.] 



BULWER'S PETREL [Bidweria bulwerii (Jardine and Selby). German, Bulwers Sturmvogel]. 



1. Description. A small sooty brown petrel about 11 in. [279 mm.] long. It may 

 readily be distinguished from all the other species of petrels by the nostrils, which are fleshy at 

 their extremity, with the openings directed forwards and upwards. The plumage is of a nearly 

 uniform sooty brown, paler on the under parts ; bill black ; tarsi and toes yellow ; webs black ; 

 the tail is long and cuneate. [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. Breeds in the islands of the temperate East Atlantic and also in the 

 North Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic it is known to breed on the Madeiran Desertas, on the 

 Salvage Islands, and on Alegranza and many of the islets in the Canarian group. There is no 

 evidence of nesting on the Azores, where it is said to be a casual visitor. In the Pacific it is 

 found nesting in the Hawaiian group (on Laysan, French Frigate Island, Necker and Bird 

 Islands), in the Bonin and Volcano Isles, south of Japan, where it probably breeds, and on 

 islands off the Fokien coast (Ibis, 1905, p. 63). It is said to have occurred casually in Green- 

 land, and five specimens have been obtained in England (Sussex four, Yorks one), while on 

 the west of the Atlantic it is said to occur on the Bermudas. [F. c. R. J.] 



