the Tubinares in the North Atlantic Islands. 451 



B.eco7'd of occurrences in the North Atlantic Islands. 



Azores. — Occasionally taken in this group; Ogilvie-Grant 

 records two specimens. Godman did not meet with it. 



Madeira Group. — Evidently a very rare wanderer to the 

 Madeira Islands. Schmitz obtained his first genuine example 

 of this species on the 9th of November, 1906. According 

 to the same writer, Harcourt included it in one of bis lists 

 of non-breeding birds from Madeira on the authority of 

 Sir William Jardine, and carefully distinguished it from 

 O. castro, which is mentioned at the same time. Drouet 

 mentions having seen this Petrel in Madeira in 1861, 



Canarij Islands. — Meade-Waldo believed this species to 

 be an occasional visitor in v/inter ; he did not see it at 

 any other time of the year. There is a specimen in the 

 British Museum which he obtained in Tenerife on the 23rd 

 of February. NicoU saw many O. leucorhoa just before 

 sigbting Gran Canaria on the 12th of November. Von 

 Thanner's statement that this species breeds on Montana 

 Clara rests on utterly unreliable evidence. 



Cape Verde Islands, — Neither Boyd Alexander nor Fea 

 mention having seen this Petrel amongst the islands. 

 Dr. Lowe, however, has several notes in his diaries referring 

 to O. leucorhoa during his cruise amongst the Cape Verdes. 

 The first entry, dated January 13th, 1906, is as follows : — 

 '' Followed, by many small Petrels, apparently all 0. leucorhoa. 

 Later, 10 P.M. (same date): apparently going through an 

 increasing crowd of Petrels, or else they have been attracted 

 by the lights of the yacht, for I secured four birds (O. leu- 

 corhoa) which fell on the deck more or less exhausted. 

 During the night twenty or more Petrels boarded us. 

 Arrived St. Vincent, Cape Verde, at 7 a.m., January 14th." 



3. Oceanodroma castro. Madeiran Fork-tailed Petrel. 



Type locality — Desertas (Madeira Group). 



Thalassidroma castro Harcourt^ Sketch of Madeira, 1851, 

 p. 123. 



