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Geographical Range. Breeding. Kerguelen Island, Falkland Islands 

 General Distribution. Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to the Antarctic Ice 

 Barrier, north in the Atlantic Ocean to the coast of Labrador and the 

 British Islands. Indian Ocean, from Mekran coast southward ; the Aus- 

 tralian Seas and New Zealand. 



Wilson's Stormy Petrel was not collected by the Princeton Expedi- 

 tions, and the description here given is based on an adult male, no. 

 8574, taken off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, 3 August, 1881, 

 by William E. D. Scott. 



This Petrel so far as known breeds on the Islands of the South Atlantic 

 Ocean during late January, February and early March. After the cares 

 of the breeding season are completed, these birds migrate northward pas- 

 sing their winters in the regions indicated in their general geographical 

 range. 



" Nests under rocks, usually on pretty high land, laying a single white 

 egg. There are no eggs in the collection ; but one was found by Rev. 

 Mr. Eaton, of the English party, on Thumb Mountain, some fifteen miles 

 from the American station, December 8." (Natural History of Kerguelen 

 Island, J. H. Kidder, M. D., Bull. no. 3, U. S. Nat. Mus. p. 16, 1876.) 



"Northerly from Dungeness Spit." "During most of the 2Oth we 

 were greatly off our course, beating in towards the land. On the 2ist we 

 noticed a stormy petrel ( Thalassidroma Wilsonii?} for the first time, and 

 on the afternoon of the following day a number of petrels of another spe- 

 cies, brown above, and white beneath, with the exception of the throat, 

 which was dark-coloured, were observed flying about astern. We re- 

 marked that they soared at a much greater elevation than even the Cape 

 pigeons or Fulmars. We never noticed them light on the surface of the 

 water, and their wings appeared proportionally much longer and nar- 

 rower." (Cunn. Nat. Hist. Str. Magellan, 1871, p. 226.) 



Genus GARRODIA Forbes. 



Type. 



Garrodia, Forbes, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 735; id. Voy. Chall., 

 Zool. IV. Pt. xi. p-. 56 (1882); Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus. XXV. p. 361 (1896); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 

 122 (1899) G. nereis. 



