WILSON S PETREL. 



N ATA TORES. 



639 

 LAR1DJE. 





WILSON'S PETREL. 



Thalassidroma Wilsoni. 



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



Tfuxlassidroma T/ialassidrome de Wilson, TEMM. Man. (TOrnith. vol. iv. 



p. 512. 



IN the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, volume 3, part 2, 1824, a memoir by Charles 

 L. Bonaparte, now Prince of Canino, gives an account of 

 four species of Storm Petrels, with the distinctive charac- 

 ters, measurements, and figures, of each. Wilson's Petrel, 

 the bird now under consideration, is one of the species in- 

 cluded 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 probably 

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

 I am acquainted with of the appearance of Wilson^s Petrel 



