114 Mr. D. A. Bannermau on the [Ibis, 



(J. f. O. 1885, p. 178): '^Tliis bird is also rau^lit and 

 killed in large numbers for food, especially in Allegranza 

 where it is very numerous . . J' 



In his last paper (J. f. O. 1857, pp. 345, 346) BoUe 

 mentions a conversation with Berthelot, wjjo referred to 

 Bulwer's Petrel nesting on Allegranza. 



Nothing very definite was known about this Petrel in the 

 eastern group or outer islets until I visited them in May 

 and Jnne, 1913, for tlie express pnrpose of ascertaining 

 which Petrels and Shearwaters bred there. The only island 

 upon which Bulwer's Petrel was fonnd nesting was Montana 

 Clara, where they were ([uite common. At the time of my 

 visit on the 7th of Jnne all the birds had laid, bnt the eggs 

 were all perfectly fresh, and when we left the island on the 

 14th of Jui-'c in no instance had the young hatched out 

 (Ibis, 1914, p. 80). 



In the western islands of the Archipelago Bulwer's Petrel 

 is recoi'deJ only from 1'enerife. Meade-Waldo certainly 

 wrote (Ibis, 1893, p. 207) : "Fairly common, it breeds on all 

 the islands, usually under big loose stones at the foot of the 

 cliffs,^' but from a [)eriisal of his !MS. note-books, which he 

 most kindly lent me, he does not mention the bird any « here 

 bnt from Tenerife, though he is i)iobably correct in saying 

 it breeds at any rate in some other of the western islands. 

 From Tenerife it is. first mentioned by ]Me;ule-WaIdo on tiie 

 Gth of February, 1888,* when he noted " two or three off the 

 coast ol Tenerife" when on his way to Gomera (Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 5). He remaiks in a later paper: "Bulwer's Petrel 

 [Buhvena columbina) breeds commonly along the cliffs ; there 

 are two j)laces, not very far from each other, to the east of 

 Orotava '^ (Ibis, 1889, p. 517), Savile Ueid did not see a)iy 

 amongst the various species of Petrels and Shearwaters noted 

 by him on the 19th of March, 1887, off Tenerife (Ibis, 1888, 

 p. 80). This is not sur[)rising, as 1 believe B. bulivt'ri to be 

 almost entirely a night-fiying bird. 



* I regret that I misled this record when dealing with this species in 

 iny paper on the Tnbinares (Ibis, 1914, pp. 488 and 493), tlie earliest 

 record from auv of the north Atlantic ishuid-s. 



