1. PROCELLARIA PELAGICA, Linn. 



(STORM-PETREL.) 



(Plate 1.) 



Procellaria pelagica, Linn., Syst. Nat., L, p. 212 (1766) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



XXV., p. 343 (1896) ; Sharpe, Handl. Birds, I., p. 120 (1899). 

 Stormy Petrel, Lath., Gen. Syn. Birds, III., pt. 2, p. 411 (1785). 

 Hydrdbates pelagica, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 562. 

 Thalassidroma pelagica, Vigors, Zool. Journ., II., p. 405 (1826). 

 Hydrobates faeroensis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., p. 803 (1831). 

 Thalassidroma melitensis, Schembri, Cat. Orn. Malta, p. 118, pi. 5 (1843). 

 Procellaria lugubris, Bp., Atti Sesta Riun. Sc. Ital. Milano, 1844, p. 445 (1845, ex. Natt.). 

 Procellaria melanonyx, Bp., Consp., II., p. 197 (1857). 



Fuliginoso-niger, quasi schistaceo adumbratus : uropygio imo et supracaudalibus 

 albis, his late nigro terminatis : rectricibus nigris, basi ipsa alba : aJis nigris, 

 tectrieibus majoribus et secundariis intimis albido marginatis : gastraeo fuliginoso- 

 nigro, crisso laterali albo : rostro pedibusque nigris : iride corylino. 



The "Stormy Petrel," as this species has been called since the days of Latham, 

 breeds on the Lofoten Islands, on the north coast of Norway, on the Faroes, the 

 Orkney and Shetland Isles, and in suitable places on the west coast of the United 

 Kingdom and northern France, as well as on several islands in the Mediterranean. In 

 Western Europe, especially at the time of the autumn migration, or in rough weather, 

 individuals are frequently driven far inland, and are picked up in an exhausted 

 condition. The species is found on the eastern coast of North America, but there 

 is as yet no record of its nesting there. That it does so is extremely probable, for 

 Mr. L. M. Turner met with the species on the Kosoak River, in Labrador, on the 20th 

 July, and observed another example on the same river in October. 



After the breeding season, the Storm-Petrel is very widely distributed over the 

 Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Cape of Good Hope, and even extending its range along 

 the east coast of Africa, up to the latitude of Zanzibar. The Storm-Petrel of the 



