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Mid-Sept. Down-covered young may be met with (Madeira Group) : 



Schmitz. 

 Sept. 24. Many birds seen (Deserta Grande) : Schmitz. 



Nov. All £. buhoeri departed (Madeira Group) : Schmitz. 



Breeding range in the Azores. 



We have very little knowledge of Buhveria buhoeri in tlie 

 " Western Islands/' as this group used commonly to be called. 



The first occasion upon which B. bulweri was mentioned 

 by old writers on this group was by Drouet, who remarked 

 that it was an accidental visitor to Flores and Corvo 

 (c/. Hartert, Nov, Zool. vol. xii. p. 97). 



The most definite assertion that Bulwer's Petrel breeds 

 in the Archipelago is made by Dr. Bolle in two papers on 

 tlie Birds of the Canary Is. (J. f. O. 1855 & 1857). In 

 these Bolle writes, " The native land of B. bulweri appears 

 to be the Azores.^" At the time of writing he took it for 

 granted that jB. bulweri and Pvffi,nus columbmus Berth, were 

 distinct species, for he goes on to say, '' Whether it {B. bul- 

 weri) or columbinus (so abundant in Corvo, and from which 

 the inhabitants obtain such a good oil) belongs to the Azores 

 is not known." Corvo is one of the smallest islands of the 

 Azores, and is in the western group of the Archipelago. 



Mr. Gi'ant, who visited all the islands between February 

 26tli and June 2nd, did not meet with it, which is not sur- 

 prising as he only spent one day, April 14th, on Corvo, on 

 which date the birds would not have arrived ; neither is it 

 mentioned by Godman, who, some years earlier, remained in 

 the group from March 21st and explored all the islands. 



In the National Collection there are are two skins of adult 

 birds labelled " Madeira/Azores, Dr. Frere,'^ presumably 

 obtained at sea between the said groups. The absence of 

 further details concerning this species in the Azores only 

 exemplifies the necessity of further research in those islands. 



Breeding range in the Madeira GroKp. 

 Madeira with its accompanying islands is the true home of 

 Bulwer's Petrel, which breeds, according to that excellent 



