MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



seas and off New Caledonia, but it is not yet recorded from the Pacific islands 

 or the waters of the Northern Pacific Ocean. In the Indian Ocean, Professor Giglioli 

 observed it always in company with Cymodroma melanogaster (Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, 

 p. 37), and a specimen, procured by Colonel E. A. Butler off the Mekran coast on 

 the 28th May, 1877, is now in the Hume Collection in the British Museum (Hume, 

 Stray F., V., p. 291). Wilson's Storm-Petrel has also been recorded from the Cape of Good 

 Hope by Sir Andrew Smith, and by the late C. J. Andersson from the coast 

 of Damara Land. A specimen was also obtained by the late Governor Ussher, on the 

 Gold Coast (Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 74). I myself met with the bird near the Azores 

 in 1860, thirty miles to the west of Fayal (Ibis, 1866, p. 104). 



It extends its northward range to the Bay of Biscay, and is sometimes not un- 

 common in our British seas. Mr. Howard Saunders, in his " Manual of British Birds," 

 summarises the occurrences of Wilson's Petrel in Western Europe as follows : — " 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 7th August, 1873 ; and Count Salvadori has identified a specimen 

 in the University Museum of Cagliari, said to have been obtained off Sardinia. As 

 regards the British Islands, Gould observed this species in abundance off Land's 

 End in May, 1838, and in November of the same year a specimen was found dead near 

 Polperro, in Cornwall ; an example has been picked up near Chippenham, in Wiltshire ; 

 two have been obtained near Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight (the last in the autumn 

 of 1888) ; the late Mr. F. Bond recorded one from Sussex ; one was shot near Halifax, 

 in Yorkshire, in November, 1874 ; and three 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 October, 1891, examples were secured in 

 co. Down and co. Antrim respectively." 



0. oceanicus has been observed in large flocks in mid- Atlantic, and off the coast 

 of North America. In our northern spring Mr. L. M. Turner found it abundant 

 off Labrador (Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIIL, p. 253, 1885). 



To the southward this Petrel has been observed in many parts of the South 

 Atlantic Ocean, and doubtless occurs at certain seasons off the West Indian Islands, but 

 at present the only certain record is that of Dr. Wells, who states that it is seen off 

 Carriacou Island in stormy weather (Auk, 1902, p. 241). Mr. A. H. Clark also 

 noticed it in the vicinity of Margarita Island, off Venezuela (Auk, 1902, p. 260). 



A specimen from the neighbourhood of Bahia was in Dr. Wucherer's collection, 

 and Professor Giglioli recorded the species from the vicinity of the Falkland 

 Islands (Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 37) and as far north as Callao on the Pacific coast 

 of South America. 



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