the Tuhinares in the Nui-th Atlantic Islands. 449 



l-ianjje beyond the North Atlantic Islands. 

 Eastern portions o£ north Atlantic south to west Africa, 

 also western Mediterranean. 



General Conclusions. 

 T. pelagica is not a very common bird in these seas, 

 although it is pretty regularly distributed. There is only 

 one record of its having bred on any of the north Atlantic 

 Islands^ although I strongly suspect it of breeding oc- 

 casionally on one or two of the more isolated islets. It has 

 not been recorded as yet from the Azores, Salvages, or the 

 Cape Verde Islands^ the latter group being rather far south, 

 although there is one skin in the British Museum from the 

 Gold Coast and another obtained by Mr. Willoughby Lowe, 

 30 miles north of the equator off the African coast. 



Breeding range in the Madeira Group. 



The only evidence that the Storm Petrel has ever bred in 

 til is group is furnished by three eggs belonging to this 

 species (ea? Tristram Coll.) now in the British Museum, which 

 are said to have been taken on the ' Desertas ' in the year 

 1819, probably by Dr. Frere. 



Padre Schmitz has apparently never heard of any eggs 

 being taken during his residence in the island, and has 

 seldom met with the bird. He records what he believes to 

 have been three examples of T. pelagica, seen near Deserta 

 Grande on the 24:th of September, 1905. He also mentions 

 having received a letter from Dalgleish in which that gentle- 

 man writes, '' P. pelagica has been seen near Madeira/' 



In the first two ' Lists ' published by Harcourt, that 

 ornithologist includes T. pelagica with the remark '^ Doubtful'^ 

 against this species. In his third List he has apparently 

 established the Storm-Petrel as an accidental visitor to 

 Madeira, for he records it without any remark. It was also 

 mentioned from Madeira by Drouet, in 1861. 



Breeding range in the Canary Islands. 

 There is no actual record of the Storm Petrel breeding in 

 the Canary Group, although the following experience leads 



