453 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the Distribution of 



Thalassidroma jabe-jabe Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Sci. Lisboa, 

 1875, p. 120 : Cape Verde Is. 



Cymochorea cryptoleucura Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 iv. 1882, p. 337 : Hawaiian Is. 



Oceanodroma castro (Harcourt) ; Godman, Monograph of 

 Petrels, p. 15, pi. v. 



Breeding range in the North Atlantic Islands. 

 Azores, Madeira Group, Salrage Is., Cape Verde Is. 



Range beyond the North Atlantic Islands *. 

 Soutli Atlantic — St. Heleoa (breeding). 

 Pacific Ocean — Hawaiian Islands and Galapagos Islands. 



For accidental wanderings, see Godman^s ' Monograph of 

 Petrels.' 



Although the island of St. Helena does not come within 

 the scope of this paper, it may be of interest to state what is 

 known of the occurrence of 0. castro on that island. To begin 

 with, Godman, in the '^ Monograph,' writes : "It has been 

 found in the neighbourhood of St. Helena, where a specimen 

 was obtained by Governor Janisch." This specimen and 

 another adult obtained in tbe same year (1876) are now in the 

 British Museum, while there are also two other skins in the 

 National Collection obtained on Egg Is., St. Helena, by J. T. 

 Cunningham, on March 23, 1910. One of these birds is an 

 adult, but the other is a juvenile jmj?^ out of down, which was, 

 as Mr. Cunningham informs me, taken from the nest-hole. 

 Now, in a book entitled ' St. Helena,' by J. C. Melliss, 

 published in 1875, in which is given a list of the birds of 

 this island, we find only two members of the Petrel family 

 mentioned : one is Procellaria glacialoides, while the other is 

 "" Thalassidroma melanogaster ? — Mother Carey's Chicken. 

 A small species of Petrel frequenting the sea around the 



* Up to the present there are not any records of the eggs of O. castro 

 having been taken in the Pacific Islands. It is most probable, however, 

 that it will be found breeding in both the Hawaiian and Galapagos 

 Archipelagos. 



