750 BULWER’S PETREL. 
holes in the rocks, and is known by the name of ‘ perrito,’ or ‘little 
dog,’ from its cry; while Mr. Meade-Waldo describes it as fairly 
common, and breeding on all the Canary Islands (Ibis, 1893, p. 207). 
About the year 1850 Dr. Frere obtained a considerable number of 
birds and eggs from the Desertas, near Madeira, where Mr. Hurrell 
also took a good many in 1851; while Mr. F. D. Godman gives 
(Ibis, 1872, p. 162) an interesting account of his visit to those islets in 
1871. Mr. Ogilvie Grant met with the bird on the Salvages, and 
throughout Madeiran waters. Leaving the Atlantic, we find this bird 
in the Hawaiian group, as well as in the Bonin and Volcano Islands, 
far to the south of Japan, and it has been obtained near Amoy. 
Mr. Godman writes:—‘‘We found plenty of Bulwer’s Petrels 
sitting on their eggs, which were in holes or under rocks, and usually 
about as far in as one could reach with one’s arm. They build no 
nest, but lay their eggs on the bare rock. I did not find more than 
one egg in each nest. I secured several birds and eggs, and kept 
some of the former alive. It is curious to watch them crawling 
along the ground; for they cannot fly unless they get to the edge 
of a rock ; they waddle along on their feet, and, when they come to 
a steep place, use the sharp-pointed hook of their beaks to draw 
themselves up with. They seem to dislike the light, and hide them- 
selves under a rock or crawl into a hole as soon as possible ; I never 
saw one of this species flying about in the daytime, though some of 
the smaller ones are common enough.” The egg is pure white: 
measurements 1°7 by 1°2 in. 
The adult has the plumage almost uniformly brownish-black, paler 
on the edges of the great wing-coverts ; tail much graduated and 
cuneate ; bill black; legs and toes reddish-brown, webs dusky. 
Length 11 in., wing 8 in. It is a highly specialized form, with only 
one near ally, Bulweria macgillivrayi, from Fijian waters. 
Examples of the Petrel familiarly known as the Cape Pigeon 
(Daption capensis) are recorded by More from the neighbourhood 
of Dublin on October 30th 1881, by the Rev. M. A. Mathew from 
near Bournemouth (Zool. 1894, p. 396), and by Mr. Salter from 
the Dovey in 1879 (Zool. 1895, p. 254). This species belongs 
essentially to the southern hemisphere, and I am not aware that it 
has ever been proved to follow ships across the equator ; but the 
ease and frequency of its capture with hook and line are notorious, 
and many birds have been carried hundreds and thousands of miles 
before being liberated. I do not believe that this species has ever 
wandered to the United Kingdom. 
