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Breeding range in the Salvage Islands. , 



]\Tr. Ogilvie-Grant found tliis Petrel breeding in large 

 colonies on Great Salvage Island between the 24tli and 29th 

 of April. He notes that on April 27 the most advanced eggs 

 were only half incubated. No young birds were obtained. 

 Many adults and 22 eggs were collected, which are now in the 

 British Museum. Mr. Grant was informed by the pilot of 

 his tug that numbers of these birds breed on the Little 

 Piton. 



Dr. P. R. Lowe mentions that the Salvage Islands have 

 been visited by ornithologists in April, May, and October, 

 and confirms Mr. Grant's statement that the end of April is 

 the breeding-season of P. m. hypuleuca. 



Canon Tristram saw numbers of these Petrels on March 17 

 when twenty miles east of the Salvages. 



Range in the Canary Islands. 



The records of this Petrel being taken in the Canary 

 Islands are not by any means numerous, although this is the 

 type locality of P. m. hypoleuca, the shores of Tenerife being 

 given as the hal)itat of this Petrel in Webb, Berthelot 

 and Moquin-Tandon''s work * Ornithologie Canarienne.' 

 Drouet mentions it from the Canaries. Meade-Waldo found 

 this Petrel to be " not common," and noted that some 

 were caught by the fishermen every spring. Savile lleid 

 records an example which was brought to him alive in 

 Tenerife on the 20th of March. Captain Shelley, who 

 identified this specimen, informed him that it had already 

 been obtained " once or twice " in the Cananan Archipelago. 

 I have not met with it myself in the Canary Islands. The 

 only two Canarian examples in the National Collection were 

 obtained, one by Meade-Waldo in Tenerife, 20. v. 89, and 

 the other by Savile Reid, which is the specimen mentioned 

 above. Cabrera had a specimen in his collection procured 

 at Tegina on the coast of Tenerife. Bolle never met with it 



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