4S8 Mr. D, A. Banrierman on the Distribution of 



the bird occasionally extends its nesting season^ uuless_, for 

 some reasoij, this was a second brood. 



Breeding range in the Cape Verde Islands. 



Fea^s Soft-plumaged Petrel is even a rarer bird ia the 

 Cape Verde Group than it is in the Madeira Islands^ and 

 although no eggs or young have been taken, it must un-: 

 doubtedly breed there. In this archipelago it is restricted 

 to the islands of St. Nicholas and Fogo^ where Fea dis- 

 covered it living on the former island "always at an altitude 

 of 500 metres. '^ This same traveller says it is to be found 

 also on Fogo, vide Salvadori (Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. ser. 2, 

 vol. XX. 1899, p. 305). I gather from Fea's own account 

 that lie did not himself meet with the bird on Fogo, but 

 constantly heard it spoken of by the natives of this island. 

 Boyd Alexander did not come across this Petrel during his 

 expeditions in 1897, but I have found an interesting note 

 referring to this species in one of his private diaries, which 

 I have been privileged to read. Under the date May 27th, 

 while on a voyage down the west coast, he writes : — 

 ''• Lat. 11° 10' N. ' Black ' Petrels still following in numbers, 

 this afternoon great numbers of Shearwaters ( G^strelaia 

 mollis) suddenly appeared, they kept circling low over the 



water, soon all were left behind May 28th. Arrived 



Sierra Leone." This entry is of particular interest, as it is 

 the most southerly point that O. m. fea has been noted, 

 and is, moreover, the only occasion on which the bird has 

 been seen in the month of May. 



13. Bulweria bulweri. Bulwer's Petrel. 

 Type locality — Madeira Group. 



Procellaria bulwerii Jardine & Selby, lllustr. Orn. ii. 

 1828, pi. 65. 



Procellai'ia anjinho HeinekeUj Brewster^s Edin. Journ. 

 Sci. new series, i. 1829, p. 231 : Madeira Group. 



