OCEANODROMA. — OCEANITES. 2^15 



Atl;iiitic, storiii-diiven individunls occurring in western 

 Europe from Norway to Portugal and in the Mediterranean ; 

 also as far south as the Azores, the Canary Islands, and the 

 Gold Coast; it occurs in Iceland and breeds from Green- 

 land and Labrador as far south as Maine, wintering farther 

 south to Virginia. In the north Pacific it breeds from the 

 Aleutian Islands and Alaska southwards to Sitka, also in 

 the Commander and Kurile Islands, visiting Japan and 

 apparently wandering to the Galapagos Islands. 



Oceanodroma castro. Madeiran Petrel. 



Thalassidroma OSiStro Rarcourt, Sketch of Madeira, 1851, 

 p. 12'6 : Desertas Islands, near Madeira. 



Oceanodroma cryptoleucura {Ridg.) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. 



XXV. 1896, p. 350. 

 Oceanodroma castro (Sarcourt) ; Saunders, Manual, 2nded. 1899, 



p. 731. 



Castro, from " Eoque de Castro," the bird's local name in Madeira. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor, three 

 specimens having been recorded : — Littlestone, Kent, Dec. 

 1895; Hythe, Kent, Nov. 1906; and Milford, Hampshire, 

 Nov. 1911. 



General Distribution. — The Madeiran Petrel breeds in the 

 Azores, on Porto Santo and the Desertas in the Madeira 

 group, the Salvage Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, and 

 probably St. Helena. In the Pacific Ocean it is found in the 

 Hawaiian and Galapagos groups, but the birds from these 

 islands have been recognised as distinct races. Stragglers 

 have been obtained off the coast of Denmark : it is accidental 

 in Indiana and the District of Columbia, U.S.A. 



Genus OCEANITES Keyserling ^ Blasius, Wirbelth. Eur. 

 1840, p. xciii. 



Type : 0. oceanicus (Kuhl). 



Oceunltes=iaKtaviTris, living on the open sea, i>Keav6$. 



