112 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the [Ibis, 



Meade-Waldo wrote it was " Resident, but not in s;reat 

 numbers ; it breeds very early in the year" (Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 207), noting tliat it lays at tlie end o£ February and 

 beginning of March (Ibis, 1890, p. 437). Meade- Waldo 

 has the following entry in his ]MS. diary under date 

 16 March, 1888 : " Got a Purffimis obscurus * that a boy had 

 brought in to Gomez and had caught in a cave this morning, 

 lie said it had a young one, it had the hatching spot on its 

 breast. '* 



Meade-Waldo says that he took on the 3rd of April an 

 adult bird* sitting on an egg and young birds-in-down '^ on 

 the 26th of April at Orotava ; and again on 29 April, 1888, 

 an entry in his MS. diary, '' A boy brought a P. ohscm-us 

 alive which he had caught in a cave." 



Ramon Gomez — the Orotava chemist — obtained a male 

 on the 16th of April, 1891, at Orotava, and a female on the 

 24tli of April, 1888, at the same place. These two skins are 

 in the Tristram collection in the Liverpool ]\Iuseura, where 

 I have examined them. 



In May 1888, Meade-Waldo mentions seeing this Petrel 

 on the water between Garaciiico and San Juan de la Rambla 

 in company with four other species (MS. diaries). 



It is curious that I have been unable to find any mention 

 of this Shearwater in Tenerife later than the month of May. 

 Its habits have not been studied very minutely in this island. 



Outer islets. 



Grac'iosa. — There seems little doubt that this Shearwater 

 breeds on this island. ^Meade-Waldo visited Graciosa on 

 the 6th of April, 1890, but did not meet with it (Ibis, 1890, 

 p. 437). When camping on this island from 27 ^lay to 

 7 June, 1913, I was assured l)y the fishermen (who showed 

 me their nesting-holes) that P. a. haroli iiad already bred 

 and departed. They told me that they came here in March 

 (Ibis, 1914, p. 66). 



Montana Clara. — 1 spent a week on this island from 

 June 7 to 14, 1913. Two eggs and young "^ in all stages 

 * Skins in the British Museum. 



