THE COLLARED PETREL-BULWER'S PETREL. 2 39 



Family PUFFIN JD^. Subfamily P UFFININsE. 



COLLARED PETREL. 



CEstrelata brevipes ( PEALE.) 



THE usual range of this South Pacific Petrel extends from the Fiji Isles to 

 the New Hebrides. It was originally discovered on the Island of 

 Aneiteum, where it breeds in burrows on the wooded mountain-tops of the 

 interior. It was added to the British list in the early winter of 1889, when a 

 solitary specimen was shot on the Welsh coast between Borth and Aberystwyth. 

 Mr. J. W. Willis Bund presented this bird to the Natural History Museum. 

 Mr. O. Salvin figured this bird in the "Ibis," 1891, pp. 411-414, where a detailed 

 account of its history will be found. This Petrel has the crown and hind-neck 

 sooty brown, which gradually blends with the light grey colour of the back ; 

 wings dark sooty brown ; tail greyish brown ; face, chin, and throat, white. The 

 colour of the under surface varies, some specimens being nearly white with a broken 

 collar of grey on the breast, while others are grey from the breast downwards. 

 Total length about 12 inches; wing 8i; tarsus i inch. 



Family PUFFINIDsE. Subfamily PUFFININ&. 



BULWER'S PETREL. 



Bithvcria columbina (WEBB AND BERTH.) 



THIS Petrel is best known, perhaps, as a resident in the neighbourhood of the 

 Canaries, Madeira, and the Salvage Isles ; but it ranges northwards to the 

 islands of the Japanese Empire, and, eastward, to the Sandwich Isles. Its claim 

 to be considered a British bird rests upon the authenticity of a single specimen 

 which was picked up near Tanfield, Yorkshire, May 8th, 1837. This Petrel is of 

 a deep sooty brown, or black, above and below, with a greyish shade over the 

 head and neck; the chin and throat are slaty-grey. Total length about n inches; 

 bill i '2 ; tarsus 1-05. 



