the Tubinares in the North Atlantic Islands. 485 



Breeding range in the Cape Verde Islands. 

 Boyd Alexander's Shearwater breeds on Cima Island, in 

 the E/Ombos Group, and on Branca, where Alexander found 

 it in 1897. It inhabits, and probably also breeds on, the 

 islands of St. -lago, Raza, and Fogo, where it was discovered by 

 Fea (see account by Salvadori). Alexander obtained a series 

 of birds and five eggs of this Shearwater on Cima Island 

 on the 15th of March, while on Branca, which he left on 

 May 5th, all the birds had young and numbers were seen at 

 sea. Signer Fea obtained an adult male on St. Jago ou the 

 21st of Maj^, two males on the Rombos Islands on the 22ud of 

 September, three birds, male and female, on Raza between 

 the 31st of October and 4th of November, and a female 

 on Fogo on the 10th of June. Count Salvadori does not, 

 however, mention that Fea found it breeding on any of the 

 islands mentioned from which specimens were obtained ; 

 Signor Fea wrote that his visit to the Rombos Is. was a 

 i'ailure and that none of the Petrels or Shearwaters were 

 breeding. 



12. (Estrelata mollis fese Salvadori. Fea's Soft-plumaged 

 Petrel. 



Type locality — S. Nicolas, Cape Verde Islands, 

 (Estrelata fece Salvadori, Ann, Mus. Civ. Genov. ser. 2, 



vol. XX. 1899, p. 305. 



(Es/re/«^a/e« Salvadori; Godman, Monograph of Petrels, 



p. 201. 



Breeding range in the North Atlantic Islands. 

 Madeira Group (restricted locally), Cape Verde Islands, 



Range heijond the North Atlantic Islands. 



Not recorded as breeding anywhere but in above localities. 

 Noted south to lat. 11° 10' N,, one day's sail from Sierra 

 Leone. Replaced by the typical species, (E. mollis mollis, in 

 the south Atlantic^ Pacific, and Indian Oceans. 



Note. — I have not thought it necessary to include tlie 

 (;(>mplctc synonymy of this l*etrcl in this paper. The bird 



