106 Mr. D. A. Banner man on the [Ibis, 



Koeuig- recorded a specimen from Palma (J. f. O. 1890, 

 l)p. 462 et 487) whicii was presented to liim, and this bird, so 

 Dr. Le Roi told me in a letter in 1914, is no lunger in the 

 Koenig Museum but has long since been destroyed. There 

 is another skin in the Bonn Museum which is labelled from 

 Tenerife but with no further data. 



As recently as 1905 it has been said by Floericke that 

 P. p. puffinus breeds in the eastern islands (A. d. Hcimat d. 

 Kanarienvog. 1905, p. 95). This statement I have proved 

 to be quite untrue, and I doubt very much whether the 

 Manx Shearwater has ever bred on any of these islands 

 (Ibis, 1914, p. 476). 



Polatzek has without comment quoted Floericke's remarks 

 (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 23) ; he does not mention ever having 

 seen the Manx Shearwatei" himself. 



I did not meet with any sign of P. p. puffinus in AUc- 

 granza, Montana Clara, Graciosa, the Roque del Oueste, or 

 in either of the larger eastern islands during my expedition 

 after Petrels and Shearwaters in May and June, 1913 (Ibis, 

 1914, pp. 85, 269), and so can only consider it an Occasional 

 Visitor which sometimes, as in 1887 and 1888, visits the 

 seas of the Archipelago in large numbers. 



Range. The Manx Shearwater breeds in the islands off 

 the coast of Great Britain. Its main breeding station in 

 the north Atlantic islands is the Madeira group. It is said 

 to breed sparingly in the Azores and Salvage Islands. 



I have dealt with the distribution and nidification of this 

 species fully in ' The Ibis,' 1914, pp. 472-477. 



* Puffinus kuhli fortunatus. Canarian Kuhl's Shearwater. 

 (= Puffinus kuhli flavirostris auctorum.) 



Puffinus kuhli fortunatus Bannerman, Bull. B. O. C. xxxv. 



* In this list of Canarian birds I am following strictly the nomencla- 

 ture used by the compilers of the B. 0. U. List of British Birds (1915), 

 except in one or two cases particularly noted on page 96 of Part I. 

 I am now, however, inclined to agree with Mr. Mathews that Kuhl's 

 Shearwater can no longer be placed under the genus Piiffinm, and in 

 future shall accept the new genus C'alonecfris, in which Mr. Mathews 

 and Mr. Iredale propose to include this species. 



