MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



not nest, but were found dying in thousands along the shore. This statement, however, 

 probably refers to P. tenuirostris, and not to P. chlororhynchus. 



Gould does not appear to have met with the species himself, but relates that 

 Gilbert found it on Houtman's Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia. It was 

 nowhere so abundant as on West Wallaby Island, which was one of its chief breeding 

 places (Handb. Birds Austr., II., p. 466). 



Mr. Hall (Vict. Nat., XVIII., p. 168) found the burrows of P. chlororhynchus 

 prepared for nesting in November on a small island at the entrance of Denmark 

 River, about forty miles from King George's Sound. Mr. Campbell (Emu, II., p. 36, 

 1902) suggests that the species was P. carneipes, which is known to breed on Breaksea 

 Island, at the entrance of the Sound, as P. chlororhynchus has not been found breeding 

 on the western coast south of Rottnest Island, off Fremantle, where Mr. Lawson 

 records its nesting (Emu, IV., p. 135). 



Sir Walter Buller has entered the species as a New Zealand bird on the strength 

 of two specimens recorded by Salvin as from that country. These examples were 

 formerly in our own collection, and were purchased of Whitely ; the locality may be 

 erroneous, as the species has not since been found in New Zealand. 



In the Kermadec Islands, Mr. Cheeseman states that this Shearwater arrives in 

 October, often in very large numbers ; it digs out burrows, frequently several feet in 

 length, on the edges of cliffs, or on margins of inland terraces. 



P. chlororhynchus is mentioned by Count Salvadori (Orn. Papuasia, III., p. 464) 

 as having been procured by D'Albertis off the Kataw River in Southern New Guinea. 

 Wiglesworth, in his work on the Avifauna of the Pacific (Abhandl. K. Mus. Dresden, 

 VI., p. 80), records it as probably from the Caroline Islands (obtained by Kubary), the 

 Phoenix Islands, and the Society Islands. 



In the Phoenix Group it was met with by Graffe on McKean's Island (Hartl. and 

 Finsch, Faun. Central-Polyn., p. 245, 1867), and specimens obtained on Eimeo, in the 

 Society Group, by Mr. Green, are in the British Museum (Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XXV., p. 372), and in the Tristram Collection (Tristr., Cat. Coll., p. 5). 



This bird also visits the Indian Ocean, though the records are as yet few. Jerdon 

 says that he saw a Petrel off the coast of Madras in rough weather ; it was of a dull 

 sooty-brown colour, paler beneath. It may well have been P. chlororhynchus (Birds 

 Ind., II., p. 826). Mr. E. W. Oates considers that the species is likely to occur along 

 the Burmese coasts. The only example, however, actually obtained in Indian waters 

 is recorded by Colonel Vincent Legge as having been procured by Mr. Mc Vicar on the 

 15th of May, at Bolgodde Lake, a large sheet of water discharging into the sea fifteen 

 miles south of Colombo (Birds of Ceylon, p. 1,054). 



In the British Museum are several specimens from Mauritius, and both Sir 

 Edward Newton and Mr. E. L. Layard found P. chlororhynchus nesting on Round Island. 

 From the Seychelles I have also seen examples in the National Collection, from Praslin 



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