the Tubinares in the North Atlantic Islands. 461 



Madeira Group. — Padre Schmitz's remarks on tins Petrel 

 sum up its distribution in the Madeii'a Group better than 

 anything else. He notes, " These birds do not approach the 

 shore closely .... Dalgleish writes, 0. oceanicus has been seen 

 near Madeira." 



Canary Islands.- — Wilson^s Petrel is mentioned by several 

 writers on this group, but very few appear to have actually 

 seen the bird. Meade-Waldo observed them occasionally 

 at all seasons, particularly on May 15, 1888, off Garachico, 

 Tenerife. There is a specimen in the British Museum 

 obtained by Lort Phillips in May, " south o£ the Canaries." 



5. Pelagodroma marina hypoleuca. North Atlantic 

 Frigate-Petrel. 



*Type locality— Tenerife (Canary Is.). 



Thalassidroma hypoleuca Moquin-Tandon, in Webb, Ber- 

 thelot et Moquin-Tandon, Orn. Canarienne, 1841, p. 45. 



Pelagodroma marina (Lath.) ; Godman, Monograph of 

 Petrels, p. 53. (The bird figured in the ' Monograph,^ 

 pi. 15, is said to be from New Zealand seas = P. m.maoriana 

 Mathews ) 



Range in the North Atlantic Islands. 



Salvage Is.j Cape Verde Is. ; accidental in the Azo,res, 

 Madeira Group, and Canary Is. 



Range beyond the North Atlantic Islands. 



Has occurred as a straggler off North America and the 

 British Isles. Represented by allied forms in Australian 

 and New Zealand seas. 



* It is unfortunate that Moquin-Tandon gives " Les Parages de 

 T6nerifFe " as the habitat of this species, which must perforce become tlie 

 tj'pe locality. The bird is, curiously enough, only an accidental wanderer 

 to the Canarian Seas. Its true home is the Salvage Islands, though it 

 also breeds on the Cape Verde Group. 



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