474 JNIr. D. A. Banuerman on the Distribution of 



May 3. Downy young obtained (Porto Santo) : Schmitz. 



5. Downy young obtained (Desertas) : Schmitz. 

 No date. Two birds obtained, female contained eggs in advanced 

 stage (Flores, Azores) : Godman. ^ 



35. Many off Oarachico (Tenerife); Meade-Waldo. 

 1-31. None seen during expedition (Azores) : O.-Grant. 



Fairly numerous, apparently breeding (Azores) : Godman. 

 June 4. Downy-young obtained from the Curral (Madeira) : 



Schmitz, 



22. Two adult andtwojuvs. obtained 1000 metres above 



sea-level (Madeira) : Schmitz. 



23. Numbers of eggs seen, 11 taken, all fresh (Baixo Isl. 



off Porto Santo) : Schmitz. Three young obtained in 



the Curral (Madeira) : Schmitz. 

 June. Seen in considerable numbers (Desertas) : Godman. 



Bird obtained (Tenerife, W. Canary Is.) : Gomez. 

 July 4. Downy young found (Curral, Madeira) : Schmitz. 



7. Almost adult bird-of-the-j^ear obtained from Curral 



(Madeira) : Schmitz. 



15. Bird caught (Desertas) : Schmitz. 



16. Bird obtained Curral (Madeira) : Schmitz. 

 Ang.'ll & 12. Downy young obtained (Desertas) : Schmitz. 



11. Downy young bird well advanced (Madeira Group) : 



Schmitz. 

 Nov. Birds are not seen from beginning of this month till end 



of February (Madeira Group) : Schmitz. 

 Dec, Birds not seen during this month (Madeira Group) : 



Schmitz. 



Breeding range in the Azores. 



Reports of the Manx Shearwater in the Azores are 

 somewhat conflicting. Godman, who spent a considerable 

 time in the group in 1865, procured two females containing 

 eggs in an advanced stage at Flores in May ; and he 

 notes that this Shearwater was " not so numerous as 

 P. major" i=P- k- flavirosiris, -which is exceedingly 

 plentiful). When Ogilvie-Grant visited the Azores in 

 1903 he wrote, "though constantly on the look-out for 

 it amongst the hosts of P. k. flavirosiris, we never saw or 

 procured a single specimen." Major Chaves, a resident in 

 the islands well acquainted with the bird-life, considers it a 

 rare visitor to the Azores. The earliest writers, Morelet 



