288 PUFFIXID.E. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. A 

 female was picked up on Pevensey Beach, Sussex, Dec. 

 1906. 



General Distribution. The Mediterranean Great Shear- 

 water is resident throughout the Mediterranean sea and in 

 the middle Atlantic, breeding on the islands of the Madeira 

 group, the Canary Islands, the Azores, and the islands off 

 the east coast of North America. It has been obtained as 

 far south as Kerguelen. The birds breeding on the islands 

 of the eastern Atlantic, and those found oft' the coasts of 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Long Island, have been 

 distinguished as distinct forms under the names P. k.flavi- 

 rostris and P. k. borealis, respectively. 



PuffimiS obsCUrilS. (Extra-limital.) 



Puffinus obscurus baroli. LITTLE MADEIRAN 

 SHEARWATER. 



Puffinus baroli Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. ii. 1S5G, 

 p. 204 : Desertas Islands, near Madeira. 



Puffinus obscurus (Gmel.) ; B. O. If. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 198. 

 Puffinus assimilis Gould ; Salvin, Gat. Birds B. M. xxv. 1896, 

 p. 384 (part.) ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 743. 



Baroli, after the Marchese Farlotti di Barol, of Turin. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bare Visitor. It 

 has occurred six times : off the Bull Rock, co. Cork, May 

 1853 ; on three occasions in Sussex, Dec. 1900, Oct. and 

 Nov. 1911; in Kent, Nov. 1905; and in Suffolk, April 

 1858. 



General Distribution. The Little Madeiran Shearwater- 

 breeds on the Azores, the Madeira group, and the Canary 

 Islands. It is represented by a closely allied race in the 

 islands of the western Atlantic off the east coast of the United 

 States, the Bermudas, Bahamas, and Lesser Antilles. In the 



