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BULWEEIA COLUMBINA. 



(BULWER'S PETREL.) 



Procellaria lulwerii, Jard. & Selby, Illustr. of Orn. pi. 65 ; Jard. Edinb. Journ. Nat. & Geogr. 



Sc. i. p. 245 (Jan. 1830). 

 Thalassidroma bulweri (Jard. & Selby), Bp. Comp. List, p. 64 (1838). 

 Puffinus columbinus, Moq. Tand. Orn. Canar. p. 44 (1841). 

 Procellaria columbina, Moq. Tand. op. cit. pi. 4. fig. 2 (1841). 

 Bulweria bulweri (Jard. & Selby), Bp. Cat. Metod. Ucc. Eur. p. 81 (1842). 

 Bulweria columbina (Moq. Tand.), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 354 (1855). 

 JEstrelata bulweri (Jard. & Selby), Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Pbilad. 1866, p. 158. 

 Pterodroma {JEstrelata) bulweri (Jard. & Selby), Giglioli & Salvad. Ibis, 1869, p. 66. 



Figures notabiles. 



Jardine & Selby, 1. c. ; Webb, Berthelot, & Moquin Tandon, Orn. Canar. pi. 4. fig. 2 ; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 448. 



Ad. fuliginoso-nigro-fuscus, corpore supra saturatiore, corpore subtus pallidiore et magis brunneo colorato : 

 alis nigro-fuscis, tectricibus alarum majoribus ad apicem pallide et sordide fuscis : cauda nigra, cuneata : 

 rostro nigro : iride fusca, : pedibus fuscis. 



Juv. adulto similis. 



Adult Male (Deserta). Entire plumage sooty brownish black, the upper parts darker, and the underparts 

 paler and browner; wings blackish brown; larger wing-coverts dull light brown at the tips; tail black, 

 cuneate, the central feathers about l - 5 inch longer than the outermost ones; bill black; iris deep 

 brown; legs brown. Total length about 10 inches, culmen TO, gape T2, wing 7'7, tail 4 - 5, tarsus l'l. 



Adult Female. Resembles the male. 



Young. When hatched the young bird is said to be covered with dark sooty-brown down, after which it 

 assumes a plumage similar to that of the adult. 



The present species is restricted entirely to the Atlantic Ocean, being met with chiefly on or 

 near the Canaries and Madeira. It has, however, straggled as far north as the British Isles, 

 where two examples are said to have been obtained — one on the Ure, near Tanfield, in Yorkshire, 

 on the 8th May, 1837, and one off Scarborough in the spring of 1849. Except these two 

 instances I do not find it recorded from anywhere excepting in the vicinity of the Canaries and 

 Madeira. Messrs. Webb, Berthelot, and Moquin Tandon state (I. c.) that Bulwer's Petrel " is 

 very common on the small island of Alegranza, where it breeds in holes in the rocks. Its cry 

 resembles that of a puppy; and from this it gets its name of 'Perrito.' When at Lanzarote we 



