MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



every day until 16th November (Lat. 61° S., Long. 140° E.), when they left as the ship 

 came within sight of the ice, and were not seen again (Nat. Antarc. Exped., II., 

 Zool, Aves, p. 79, 1907). 



Sir Walter Buller records C. melanogaster as occurring in the seas off New Zealand, 

 specimens being in the Auckland, Nelson, and Canterbury Museums (Birds New Zeal., 

 1st ed., p. 319, 1873). He also states that he saw some of these Petrels off the 

 Chatham Islands during a severe storm. 



Mr. A. J. Campbell says that it occurs in the seas of Australia and Tasmania 

 (Nests and Eggs Birds Austr., II., p. 874), and he recorded it as breeding 

 on Cliffy Island, but afterwards found that the supposed eggs were really those of 

 Pelecanoides urinatrix. In the British Museum are specimens of the Black-belhed Storm- 

 Petrel from Port Essington and the coast of Queensland, from our collection. 

 During the voyage of the " Magenta " from Batavia to Melbourne, it was noticed by 

 Professor Giglioli in Lat. 33° 7' S., Long 101° 18' E., on the 18th April, and thence to 

 Cape Otway, after which it was replaced by P. marina ( Vertebr. Faun. Oceano, p. 38). 



Several specimens have been procured in the Indian Ocean. The late John 

 Macgillivray obtained one in Lat. 43° 20' S., Long. 41° 14' E. (cf. Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XXV., p. 365) ; and the Earl of Crawford in Lat. 36° 57' S., Long. 40° 41' E., 

 on 15th October, and a second specimen in Lat. 32° 36' S., Long. 58' E. on the 19th of the 

 same month. Another example from the Bay of Bengal is in the Tweeddale Collection 

 in the British Museum (Salvin, t. c, p. 365). 



It is also known from the Cape seas, and Layard says that it is not uncommon off 

 Cape Agulhas, and on the south-eastern coast of the Cape of Good Hope (Sharpe, 

 ed. Layard's Birds 8. Afr., p. 764). 



A specimen presented to the British Museum by Mr. Howard Saunders from the 

 collection of the late C. J. Andersson, but without any exact information as to locality, 

 was probably obtained off Walfisch Bay, in Damara Land. Mr. T. J. Parkin also met 

 with it in Lat. 39° 51' S., Long. 8° 49' E. (Bull. B. 0. C, X., p. 106, 1900). 



Dr. Frank Penrose describes an egg taken by Sir D. Gill on Boatswainbird Island, 

 close to Ascension Island (Ibis, 1879, p. 282). Salvin examined this egg and believed it 

 to be that of G. melanogaster. It might, perhaps, have been that of Oceanodroma 

 castro, but until birds are procured, it is useless to guess at the identity of the 

 species. 



The range of C. melanogaster extends to the Equator, for the specimen presented 

 by Gould to the British Museum under the name of G. tropica (Lat. 6° 33' N., Long. 

 18° 6' W.), is, as above recorded, an immature bird of C. melanogaster. Macgillivray 

 also procured an example of this Storm-Petrel in Lat. 0° 12' S., Long. 30° W. (cf. 

 Salvin, Cat., p. 365). 



In Kerguelen Island this species was found breeding by the "Challenger" Expedition 

 in Betsy Cove (Salvin, Zool. Voy. " Challenger;' II., Birds, p. 14 ; Oates, Cat. Eggs 



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