104 Mr. D. A. Bantiermau on the [Ibis, 



Visitor to the Canary-island seas, and although the type 

 specimen was described from the coasts of Tenerife it has 

 never been known to breed in the Archipelago, and therefore 

 cannot be said to really inhabit this group. The records of 

 this Petrel being taken in the Canary Islands are not 

 numerous. 1 enumerated them all in my paper on the 

 Petrels already alluded to (Ibis, 1914, pp. 463-464). 



Serra ('Ornithologia Canaria ^) and Drouet, in his ' Faune 

 Aroreenne ^ (1861), are both said to mention the Frigate- 

 Petrel from the Canaries. 



Savile Keid records an example which was brought to 

 him alive in Tenerife on the 20th of March, 1887. and 

 which is now in the British iMuseum (Il)is, 1888, p. 81). 



The only other specimen in the National Collection was 

 obtained by Meade-Waldo on the .20th of May, 1889, in 

 Tenerife ; this is probably the specimen mentioned in 'The 

 Ibis,^ 1889, [). 517. jMeade-\Val(lo found it " not common/' 

 and noted that several were caught by the fishermen every 

 spring (Ibis, 1893, p. 207). 



Cabrera had an example in his collection which was 

 procured at Tegina on the coast of Tenerife ; he remarks 

 that it is sedentary and locally distributed on certain coasts 

 of the islands (Catalogo, p. 65) ; but Bolle never met with 

 it (J. f. O. 1857, p. 346), although he is erroneously quoted 

 as having done so. On the other hand^ Bolle himself quotes 

 Bertiielot as saying that he had observed T. hypoleuca 

 constantly all round the waters of the Canary Islands 

 (J. f. O. 1857, p. 346). 



Range. The North Atlantic Frigate-Petrel breeds in the 

 Salvage Is. and the Cape Verde Is.^, and is accidental in 

 the Azores and JMadeira group. I have dealt Avith its distri- 

 bution and nidification in these islands in 'The Ibis,' 1914, 

 pp. 461-465. The typical species (P. marina marina) was 

 described from 37° S. by Latham. 



