MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



MSS. notes (Salvin, Orn. Misc. L, p. 238 ; Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., II., p. 175). 

 This name of Solander's was never actually published, and it was left to Latham to 

 describe under the name of the " Frigate Petrel," and afterwards as Procellaria 

 marina. 



This species is not infrequent in the seas of New South Wales, Victoria, South and 

 West Australia, Tasmania, and the islands of Bass's Straits. Gilbert found it breeding 

 on the islets off Cape Leeuwin, in December, as well as in the Abrolhos. Mr. A. J. 

 Campbell met with it nesting on Beacon Rock, on the south of Rat Island 

 (Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, II., p. 872), and records its breeding on several 

 islands in Bass's Straits. The erection of some forts on Mud Island in Port Phillip 

 Bay was supposed to have driven the Petrels away ; but at Christmas, 1902, Mr. S. P. 

 Townsend visited the island and found several rookeries still in existence, though they 

 were threatened with extinction by the guano-diggers. The birds are now under 

 Government protection (Townsend, Vict. Nat., XIX., p. 166 ; Le Souef, Ermi, III., 

 p. 167). 



P. marina is said by Sir Walter Buller (Birds New Zealand, 2nd ed., II., p. 248) to be 

 less common in New Zealand seas than Garrodia nereis. In the Auckland Islands 

 it was met with by the Antarctic Expedition, and a specimen from Enderby Island, 

 presented by Mr. Oakley, is in the British Museum (Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XXV., p. 363). Dr. H. O. Forbes also obtained eggs in the Chatham Islands (Ibis, 

 1893, p. 542). 



Examples were procured by Macgillivray in the South Indian Ocean (Lat. 37° 30' 

 S., Long. 42° E.) during the voyage of the " Rattlesnake," and by the " Challenger" 

 on Nightingale Island, one of the Tristan da Cunha group. 



During their expedition to Madeira, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant and the Hon. Cecil Baring 

 observed these birds in some numbers round the Salvage Islands, and they afterwards 

 found them breeding on Great Salvage in April, 1895, when they procured a good series 

 of both the birds and eggs. They were also reported to nest in large numbers on the 

 Little Piton. A few specimens have been obtained in the Canary Islands (Hartert, 

 Nov. Zool., VIII. , p. 332), and examples from Tenerife are in the collections made by 

 Captain Savile Reid and Mr. E. G. B. Meade- Waldo (Salvin, Cat. Birds, XXV., p. 363). 

 It was found breeding on the Rombos Islands in the Cape Verde Archipelago by 

 Lieut. Boyd Alexander (Ibis, 1898, p. 95). 



Two specimens are recorded from the British Islands, one off Walney Island 

 after a severe gale in November, 1890, the other being captured alive on the west 

 coast of the island of Colonsay, also after a heavy gale, on the 1st January, 1897. 

 This specimen is now in the Royal Scottish Museum at Edinburgh (cf. Saunders, 

 Manual Brit. Birds, 2nd ed., p. 735). The species has also been found off the coast 

 of Massachusetts (Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 72). 



The habits of this Petrel resemble those of others of the group, in that it makes 



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