the Tubinares in the North Atlantic Islands. 487 



Oct. 13, 1895. Schmitz received another bird from Biigio Island, 

 Desertas. 

 14, 1894. The first and only well-incubated e^^ received by 

 Schmitz from Bugio Island, Desertas.- There were 

 two eggs obtained, but one was broken. 



All the birds or eggs in the above list were procured by, 

 or came into the possession of, Padre Schmitz, who lias 

 formed such an excellent Museum at Funchal. 



Eesides the specimens noted in this list there are tMo 

 birds obtained by Dr. Frere in 1853, and now in the Museum 

 of Cambridge. The.se are mentioned in 'The Ibis/ 1890, 

 p. 386, by Mr. Dalgleish, who writes : — " In a small collection 

 of skins lately received from Madeira I find a specimen which 

 Mr. Salvin has identified as (E. mollis. . . . This bird wjis 

 taken on the Ilho de Baixo, off Porto Santo. ... I under- 

 stand that there are two specimens of the same bird in 

 the Cambridge Museum, obtained some 35 years ago by 

 Mr. Robert Frere near Madeira." 



The record from Porto Santo is given by Godman in the 

 ' Monograph of Petrels/ and apparently does not refer to 

 Dalgleish's bird, as this is mentioned under Baixo Island. 



Another record which I have not included in the summary 

 has been communicated to me by Mr. P. R. Lowe, who 

 examined, on the 24th of December, 1905, a specimen in 

 down of this Fulmar as well as an egg in the collection of 

 Padre Schmitz. Both had been procured on the island cf 

 Madeira itself. Mr. Lowe, unfortunately, has no note of the 

 date upon which the egg and young had been taken, but it 

 appears that this specimen has not been recorded in print. 



I am not by any means certain that I have compiled a 

 complete list of specimens of this bird taken in the Madeira 

 Group, but it is interesting to note that all the records of 

 this Falm.ar having been seen in Madeiran waters date from 

 the beginning of June until the end of October. There are 

 very few notes of its breeding, but June and July seem to 

 be the usual months in which the eggs are laid. One 

 record on the 14th of October from the Desertas shows that 



