264 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on an Orfiitholoffical 



atid it appears highly probable that the bird had come ashore 

 to breed. The local name of the Storm Petrel is ''Alma 

 ]\Iestre," which probably equally applies to any of the small 

 members of this family. For a further account see reference 

 gis'cn above. 



The Rev. F. Jourdain has drawn my attention to the fact 

 that there are three eggs in the British Museum from the 

 Tristram collection which were obtained on the '' Desertas/' 

 off Madeira in the year 1849^ probably taken by Dr. Frere. 

 Mr. Jourdain rightly remarks that this is a highly interesting 

 and little-known extension of the r-ecognised breeding-range 

 of this Petrel^ and this fact lends colour to my theory that 

 T, pclaglca was breeding on Montaiia Clara. 



An example was obtained from Montaiia Clara. 



Bill blacic; iris dark hazel ; feet black. 



Puffinns assimilis haroli. Little Dusky Shearwater. 



Pv/ffinus assimilis baroli Bonap. ; Bannerman^ Part I. 

 pp. 64, m, 79, 87. 



Pitffinus baroli Bonaparte^ Consp. Gen. Av. 1856, p. 204. 



Pujjinus obscw^us Gm. ; Ogilvie-Grant^ Ibis, 1890, p. 444. 



Puffinns assimilis Gould ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 50 ; Boyd Alexander, Ibis, 1898, p. 98. 



Pujinus obscurus bailloni Bonap. j Rothschild & Hartert, 

 Nov. Zool. vi. 1899, p. 196. 



Fuffinus bailloni Bonap. ; Godman, Mon. Petrels, 1908, 

 p. 138. 



Puffinus godmani Allen, Auk, 1908, p. 339. 



Puffinns obscurus atlanticus Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. 

 B. O.C. xxvii. 1911, p. 43. 



Puffinus assimilis baroli Bonap. ; Mathews, Birds of 

 Australia, vol. ii. 1912, p. 54. 



Considerable confusion has taken place over the name of 

 the Little Dusky Shearwater inhabiting the Canary Island 

 seas. Old writers on the birds of the Canary Islands, such 

 as Webb and Berthelot ('Ornithologie Cauarienne,' 1841), 

 Bolle (J. f. O. 1855), and later Godman (Ibis, 1872, p. 223), 



