434 Mr. Tom Iredale on the Surjace Breedivg 



vol. ii, 1913, p. 141 et seq.). Phillip Island, in the note by 

 Dr. Hartert above quoted^ is simply a penslip for Norfolk 

 Island. 



Mathews and I {' Ibis/ 1913, p. 232) used as the English 

 name " Kermadec Islands' Petrel/' and this is certainly 

 preferable to the twice-used ^' SchlegeFs Petrel." 



In the ' Hand-list of British Birds/ as above noted, 

 Pterodroma neglecta is admitted to the British List upon 

 the strength of an occurrence of a bird found dead near 

 Tarporley, Cheshire^ April 1, 1908. Upon the same page 

 Pterodroma hrevipes Peaie is also included, as a bird so 

 identified was shot near Aberystwyth^ Wales, in November 

 or December 1889. i 



Neither of these two birds shoidd figure in. the British List 

 as genuine wanderers to these shores. The first-named, at 

 my suggestion, has been re-examined and declared to be an 

 authentic Kermadec specimen by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 

 of the British Museum. Though my own acquaintanceship 

 with the Kermadec species is, as 1 have shown above, 

 probably better than Mr. Grant's, I bow to his superior 

 knowledge in the handling of bird -skins, and would 

 therefore point out that it would be best, even if it be a 

 Kermadec bird, to enter it in a footnote. Upon p. 155 of 

 the 'Hand-list' Messrs. Hartert, Jourdaiu, Ticehurst, and 

 Witherby write regarding Daption capense, which they do 

 not admit to be a British Bird : — " Exandples of this species, 

 an inhabitant of the southern seas, have been recorded from 

 the Dovey 1879, near Dublin 1881, and near Bournemouth 

 in 1894, but former writers have excluded them as not being 

 genuine wanderers with some reason." 



The extraordinary illogical argument that would admit 

 CEstreluta neglecta Schlegel to the British List and reject 

 Daption capense Linne I cannot uphold. The former has 

 not yet been recorded from Australia or New Zealand, yet 

 it can arrive exactly half-way round the world in order to be 

 admitted to the British List. Whilst, though Daption 

 capense Linne has only to fly up the Atlantic Ocean, it must 

 be rejected as unable to do so. Yet the powers of flight in 

 the two species arc exactly the converse, the Daption being 



