the Tubinares in the North Atlantic Islands. 445 



In giving the "^ Distribution beyond the North Atlantic 

 Islands " in each of the fourteen species dealt with, 1 have 

 particularly made use of : — 



Godman's 'Monograph of the Petrels^ ; 



Vol. XXV. of the ' Catalogue of Birds ' ; 



Vol. ii. of Mathews' ' Birds of Australia ' ; 



Jourdain's Distribution Notes in the ' British Bird Book,' 

 vol. iv; and 



The ' Hand-list of British Birds ' by Hartert and others. 



I have not gone into the life-history of these Petrels and 

 Shearwaters, as their habits, so far as we know them, have 

 been fully dealt with in various papers published in ' The 

 Ibis/ as well as in several large works, such as Godman's 

 ' Monograph of the Petrels/ Mathews' '^ Birds of Australia,' 

 the ' British Bird Book,' &c. The latter deals only with 

 the species which breed in, or have straggled to, English 

 waters, but reference is made to several species included in 

 the following pages. I have particularly mentioned this 

 ■work as in it Mr. Pycraft makes a statement which is not 

 borne out by my experience of these birds. He writes, 

 when speaking of Petrels in general, ''All are strictly marine 

 species, never leaving the extreme edge of the coast, never 

 straying out of sight or sound of the sea." If Mr. Pycraft 

 will study the nesting-habits of Pufinus huhli fiavirostris, 

 Puffiaus pvffinus puffinus, or Q^strelata mollis fece — to 

 mention only three species which inhabit the north Atlantic 

 Islands — he will soon be convinced that such a general 

 statement needs correction. All the three members of the 

 Petrel family here mentioned often nest a long way from 

 the sea, flying sometimes into the very heart of a moun- 

 tainous island, where they rear their young amongst the 

 highest peaks. An even better example of the long distance 

 which a Petrel sometimes travels from the sea is afforded by 

 the Blue Mountain Petrel [CEstrelata jamaicensis) in the 

 island of Jamaica, now, unfortunately, almost, if not quite, 

 extinct. Having spent some time in these mountains I can 

 speak with certainty of the great distance from the sea which 



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