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BULWER'S PETREL. 



Procellaria Buiwerii, JARDINK. SELBY. 



Thalassidroma Bulwerii GOULD. 



Procellaria. Procella A storm. Bulwerii Of Bulwer. Bulwer's 



THIS species appears to have been discovered as a new one 

 by Mr. Bulwer, when a resident in Madeira. It inhabits that 

 and the adjacent small islands. 



As a British Bird, it takes its place on the authority of 

 the occurrence of a specimen on the banks of the Kiver Ure, 

 or Yore, near Tan field, and which was placed on record by 

 Colonel Dalton. of Sleningford Hall, near Ripon. Meyer speaks 

 of having been informed of another obtained near York, and 

 a third taken on a ship off Scarborough. 



In flight it may readily, from the nature of its habits, be 

 supposed to excel. 



Its note is, no doubt, of the same 'leggiardo' character as 

 that of the other species. 



Male; length, from ten and a half to eleven inches; bill, 

 black; iris, dark brown, nearly black. Head, crown, neck, 

 nape, chin, and throat, sooty black; breast, sooty black, with 

 a slight tinge of greyish brown; back, nearly uniform sooty 

 black. Greater wing coverts, sooty black, the edges rather 

 paler; lesser wing coverts, primaries, secondaries, tertiaries, and 

 greater and lesser under wing coverts, sooty black. The tail 

 is also sooty black, and consists of twelve feathers arranged 

 in a wedge-shaped form, the centre plumes being two inches 

 longer than the outside ones; tail coverts, sooty black. Legs, 

 toes, and claws, dark reddish brown j webs, dark brown. 



