4)82 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the Distribution of 



Breeding range in the Canary Islands. 



P. a. baroli breeds on Tenerife^ Gran Canaria^ Montana 

 Clara, and in very small numbers on Graciosa. It is first 

 mentioned by Webb & Berthelot, who record a bird from 

 Orotava, Tenerife, taken in February 1829. Savile Reid 

 mentions a bird picked up on the shore at Orotava, on the 

 15th of March. In Tenerife also Meade-Waldo obtained 

 an adult bird on the 16th of March with the hatching-spot 

 on its breast. It was said to have had a young one just out 

 of the e|g- An adult bird was taken on the 3rd of April 

 sitting on an e^^, and young birds-in-down on the 26th of 

 April at Orotava. On the 15th of May many of these 

 Shearwaters were seen off Garachico in company with other 

 species. 



Meade-Waldo visited the island of Graciosa on the 6th of 

 Apri], but did not find any Petrels on the island at this time 

 of year. Godman in the ' Monograph ' states that Meade- 

 Waldo found eggs of this species on Graciosa at the end of 

 February and the beginning of March. This is not the 

 case ; Godman evidently misunderstood Meade-Waldo^s 

 account of his visit. Meade-Waldo states that this species 

 breeds at the end of February and the beginning of March, 

 but he is obviously referring to Tenerife, where the majority 

 of his notes were made. 



Meade-Waldo also found a pair breeding near Arucas in 

 Gran Canaria. Polatzek records it from Tenerife and the 

 small northern islets. 



During my expedition last year (1913) I found that 

 Puffi/ias assimilis baroli had almost finished breeding on Mon- 

 taiia Clara between the 7th and 14<tli of June. About ten 

 birds were taken in every stage of plumage, from the fluff"y 

 nestling to the adult bird of the year, with a few filaments 

 still adhering to the flanks. Only two eggs were procured, 

 Avhich, however, were almost fresh on the 8th of June. A 

 complete account of this nesting colony is given in ' The Ibis/ 

 1914, p. 79. We did not find any sign of these birds on 

 Allcgranza at the same time of year, but during our ten davs' 



