WHITE-FACED PETREL. 



PELAGODROMA MARINA (Latham). 



Procellaria marina, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 826. 

 Thalassidroma marina, Gould, Birds Austr. vii. pi. 61. 

 Pelagodroma marina, H. A. Macpherson, Ibis, 1891, p. 602; 

 Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 51 ; Dresser, Snppl. p. 399. 



Two occurrences. The Rev. H. A. Macpherson 

 records that after a severe gale, in November 1890, a 

 dead bird of this species was washed ashore on Walney 

 Island with a number of other birds, including a 

 Wilson's Petrel. Mr. W. Eagle Clarke (Bull. Brit. Orn. 

 Club, no. 41, p. xxviii) reports that on 1st January, 

 1897, a female of this Petrel was captured alive by the 

 margin of a stream on the west side of the island of 

 Colonsay, and that the specimen is now preserved in 

 the Museum of Science and Art at Edinburgh. 



The bird has a very wide range over the seas of the 

 southern hemisphere and breeds on some islands lying 

 near Cape Leeuwin, the southwesternmost corner of 

 Australia, and elsewhere. 



It has long been noticed in the neighbourhood of the 

 Canary Islands, and quite recently Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 found a well-established colony on Great Salvage Island, 

 north of the Canary group. Many pairs were breeding 

 there at the end of April 1895. This colony brings 

 Pelagodroma marina comparatively near our shores. 



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