WILSON'S PETREL. 



NATATORE8. 



667 



LAHIDJl. 



WILSON'S PETREL. 



Thalassidroma Wilsoni. 



Procellaria Wilsoni, Wilson's Petrel, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 286. 



Thalassidroma Thalassidrome de Wilson, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. pt. 



iv. p. 512. 



IN the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, vol. iii. part 2, 1824, a memoir by Prince 

 Charles L. Bonaparte gives an account of four species of 

 Storm Petrels, with the distinctive characters, measure- 

 ments, and figures, of each. Wilson's Petrel, the bird 

 now under consideration, is one of the species included in 

 this memoir, and, at the end of the notice of it, the 

 author says, " I have never learnt that it has been seen 

 on the coasts of Europe. I killed one, that had pro- 

 bably strayed, near the Azores." This is the first printed 

 notice I am acquainted with of the appearance of Wilson's 



