ADDITIONS SINCE 1899. 378 



LITTLE DUSKY SHEARWATER Puffi7ius assimilis Gould. 

 S. page 743. 



Pufjinus ohscurus hailloni, Bp., Rothschild and Hartert, 

 Nov. ZooL, VI. (1899), p. 196. 



Pufjiiius hailloni, Bp., Godman, Monograph Petrels, pp. 

 138-141. 



Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert separate the Australian 

 form P. assimilis from the African form P. hailloni, and 

 Dr. Godman, who coincides in this view, states that in the 

 latter bird the quill-hning is greyish, or ashy-white, and not 

 of such a pure ^vhite as in P. assimilis, while the lateral feathers 

 of the under tail-coverts are more or less black along their 

 outer webs and not entirely white as in P. assimilis. Dr. 

 Godman considers that the British examples are referable to 

 the Madeiran form. 



The third British example was a female picked up exhausted 

 on the beach near Bexhill during the severe gale from the 

 W.S.W. on December 28th, 1900. The bird was shown to 

 belong to the form P. ohscurus hailloni (W. R. Butterfield, 

 Bull. B.O.C., XL, p. 45). 



The fourth example — a male— was caught alive near Lydd, 

 Kent, after the disastrous south-westerly gale of November 

 26th-27th, 1905 (N. F. Ticehurst, t.c, XVL, p. 38). 



BULWER'S PETREL Bulweria hulweri (Jard. and Selby). 

 S. page 749. 



The second British example was picked up dead near Beachy 

 Head, Sussex, on February 3rd, 1903, after a succession of 

 strong south-westerly gales (N. F. Ticehurst, Bull. B.O.C., 

 XIIL, p. 51). 



The third — a female — was found dead on the shore near 

 St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Sussex, on February 4th, 1904, also 

 after prolonged south-westerly gales (W. R. Butterfield, t.c, 

 XIV., p. 49). 



The fourth, vide antea, p. 282. 



FULMAR Fulmarus glacialis (L.). S. page 751. 



Breeding Stations. 



Flannan Isles. — Reported as breeding (J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown, Ann. S.N.H., 1903, p. 19). A few pairs have bred 

 on the outer islands for several years, and in 1904 two couples 

 had nests on Eilean Mor (W. E. Clarke, t.c, 1905, p. 86). 



