1^20.] Birds of the Canary Islands. 105 



Family Puffinid.ii. 



Puffiims puffinus puffinus. Manx Sljearvvater. 



Procellarla pujfi?ii(s liiiiiinicli, Oiii. Bor. 1764, p. 29 

 — Type locality : Faeroe Islands. 



The Manx Shearwater is an Annual Visitor to the seas 

 snrrouiiding the (Canary Islands. 



It is lirst recorded from the Archipelago by Ledru in 1810 

 (Voyage aux iles de Tenerift'e, vol. i. p. 185) in hi-? List of 

 the Birds of Teiierife. It is next mentioned by Webb, 

 Berthelot, and Moqnin-Taudon in their ' Ornithologie Cana- 

 rieiine,' p. 43, where they say that it is to be found, " Dans 

 nie deserte d^Alegranza on elle habite toute Tannee." 



Bolle (J. f. 0. 1855, p. 178) also includes the species (on 

 the authority of Bertlielot) as an inhabitant of AUegranza, 

 but in his next paper (J. f. O. 1857), after he had appaieutly 

 paid a visit to the island himself, he omits it altogetiiei- from 

 his final list, which points to his not having found Webb 

 and Berthelot's statement to be correct. 



The next record is given by Savile Ileid, who during a 

 visit to the islands in 1887 saw hundreds of P. p. puffinus 

 on the sea off" Teiierife on the 19th of March (Ibis, 

 1888, p. 80). 



The following year Meade-Waldo records many Manx 

 Shearwaters at sea off Garachico, between Teiierife and 

 Goniera, on the 15th of May, 1888 (MS. note-books), and 

 in his " List of Birds observed in the Canary Islands " wrote 

 that he considered it '' sometimes common on the water in 

 winter/' and further remarked that " it does not seem to 

 come to land" (Ibis, 1893, p. 206j. 



Cabrera included it in his list as common in the islands 

 of the western group, nesting ("anidando") on the deserted 

 rocks, and cited Bertlielot and Godman as his authorities 

 (Catalogo, p. 65). 



Kamon Gomez, the Orotava chemist and bird-collector, 

 obtained a specimen in June. I made a note of this but 

 liave mislaid the original reference. Probably it was 

 in iMS. 



