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



S. Nicolas in connection with this bird, but does not say 

 whether he found it breeding there. He also obtained ten 

 birds on Raza between the 1st and the 6th of November, 

 but they did not appear to be breeding. 



The birds were not breeding on Cima Island at the time 

 of Fea^s visit in August. 



Dr. P. R. Lowe met with the bird on January 14th, fifty 

 miles south-east of St. Vincent, on his way to Santiago. 



4. Oceanites oceanicus. Wilson's Petrel. 

 Type locality — Southern Oceans. 

 Procellaria oceanica Kuhl, Beitrage z. Zool. 1820, p. 136. 

 Oceanites wilsoni Keyserling u. Blasius, Wirbeltli. Eur. 

 1840, pp. xciii, 238. 



Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl); Godman, Monograph of 

 Petrels, p. 41, pi. xii. 



Range in the North Atlantic Islands. 

 A casual visitor, never approaching very close to land ; 

 recorded within a radius of 30 miles from the Azores, 

 Madeira Group, and Canary Islands. 



Range beyond the Noj'th Atlantic Islands. 

 Found iu all seas except the north Pacific. 



Record of occurrences in the North Atlantic Islands. 



Azores. — Not mentioned by Morelet or by Drouet in 

 their works on the Azores. First noticed by Godman, 

 who saw numbers at sea about 30 miles west of Fayal ; 

 skins obtained at this time (May 21, 1865) are now in 

 the British Museum. Godman knew nothing of the 

 species breeding in the archipelago, but thought that they 

 remained throughout the year. Boca'ge includes this Petrel 

 in his list (1866), and Simroth, writing in 1888, mentions 

 that O. oceanicus follows the American ships until they are 

 within sight of Flores in the Azores. 



Ogilvie- Grant did not meet with this species during his 

 expedition to the islands in 1903. 



