734 WILSON’S PETREL. 
have occurred in Cumberland, the latest of them in November 1890. 
Mr. Henry Evans secured an example on Jura early in October 
1891, the first for Scotland. As regards Ireland, a specimen 
which was supposed to have been obtained in co. Dublin, was 
presented to Thompson in August 1840 by Glennon; while, on 
the 1st and 2nd of October 1891, examples were secured in co. 
Down and co, Antrim, respectively. 
In France, three examples have been taken in the Gulf of 
Gascony, all of them in December, while stragglers have occurred 
on the coast of Provence; I have a bird, in moult, captured off 
Malaga on August 7th 1873; and Dr. Salvadori has identified a 
specimen in the University Museum of Cagliari, said to have 
been obtained off Sardinia. Mr. Godman found this Petrel 
common in summer about the Azores, and Mr. Meade-Waldo 
observed it occasionally in the Canaries ; while it has been procured 
along the west coast of Africa as far as the Cape of Good Hope. 
Examples were obtained by the ‘Challenger’ Expedition, off the 
Antarctic ice-barrier, on February 14th 1874; the Rev. A. E. Eaton 
found the bird breeding on Kerguelen Island; it visits the Arabian 
Sea; and it ranges over the South Atlantic from Brazil to Australia 
and New Zealand, whence it can be traced across the South Pacific 
to Chile and Peru. In the North Atlantic it is common along the 
American coasts, visiting the West Indies and Mexico. 
Nine eggs brought from Kerguelen by Mr. Eaton and described 
by me (Phil. Trans. clxvii. p. 164) are of a dull white colour with 
minute purplish-red spots, which usually form a zone at the broader 
end: measurements 1°3 by ‘gin. They were laid in January and 
February, in crevices and holes among shattered rocks or large 
boulders. The birds arrived at their nesting-places in the latter part 
of the previous November, but comparatively little was seen of 
them by day, though towards evening they used to fly over the 
water like Swallows, or follow the course of the valleys far away 
into the country. In food and general habits this resembles other 
small Petrels; in its anatomy, however, both Garrod and Forbes 
considered that it differed so widely from the majority as to be 
entitled to rank in a separate family, Oceanttide. 
This bird has sooty-black plumage above and below, the quills and 
tail-feathers darker black ; greyish-white edges to the wing-coverts 
and inner secondaries ; white upper tail-coverts and thigh-patches ; 
and a little white at the bases of the outer tail-feathers ; black ‘bill, 
legs and toes, and the weds of the last are yel/ow at their bases. 
Total length 7 in., wing 6 in., tarsus 1°4 in. 
