MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



obtained in many other parts of Japan, and on the coast of Corea. Other localities 

 are Peel Island, in the Bonin group, Miednoi Island, where it was rare, and Bering 

 Island, from whence I have examined three specimens in the British Museum, collected 

 by Captain Barrett-Hamilton. 



Mr. Ridgway (Water-Birds of N. Amer., II. , p. 393) says that this species appears 

 to be exclusively an inhabitant of the North Pacific coasts. Mr. Dall states that a 

 specimen was brought to him by an Eskimo, from Kotzebue Sound, where it was 

 called " Minklok tingmynk," or " Seal-bird," as it is only found with the seals, and 

 follows them in their migrations. It probably occurs along the western coast of North 

 America, on passage, as it has been found in great numbers near Monterey, in California, 

 in December, by Mr. Maillard. He believed that these Shearwaters were late migrants 

 on their way to their breeding habitat in the Southern Hemisphere. 



In Australia, P. tenuirostris is said by Mr. A. J. Campbell to occur in the seas of 

 South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South and West Australia, and Tasmania, 

 and it breeds in great numbers in the islands of Bass's Straits. 



It is reported as nesting on Lord Howe Island by Mr. Robert Etheridge, 

 arriving in the latter days of August and frequenting the east end of the island, 

 where rookeries, extending from the edge of the cliffs for a considerable distance inland, 

 were found [Man. Austr. Mus., Sydney, No. 2, p. 14). 



From Sir Walter Buller we learn that this Shearwater is very abundant on the 

 coasts of New Zealand, breeding inland sometimes at a distance of fifty miles. The 

 birds return annually in large colonies, and repair to their old burrows. There is said 

 to be an extensive nesting ground in the Kaimanawa Ranges, in the Taupo-Patea 

 country (Birds N. Zeal, p. 315, 1873). 



In the British Museum is a specimen presented by Mr. W. D. Cumming, which was 

 obtained by Mr. Walter Scott, at Ormara, on the Mekran coast, about one hundred and 

 twenty-five miles from Karachi, in May, 1899. Strong south-westerly winds had been 

 blowing, and the weather had been generally unsettled for two or three days previously. 



P. tenuirostris is still met with in very large numbers in Australian waters, 

 although, owing to the great destruction of the breeding places, it may be doubted if 

 the birds exist in the same prodigious flocks as of yore. 



Gould writes (Handb., II., p. 459, 1865) : — " This bird is an inhabitant of the seas 

 surrounding Tasmania and the islands in Bass's Straits, to some of which, but especially 

 to Green Island, it resorts during the summer in countless numbers for the purpose of 

 breeding and rearing its young. I visited this island in January, 1839, when, although 

 the season was far advanced, both eggs and young were still so numerous as to excite 

 my astonishment. . . ." Mr. Davies, in the second volume of the '' Tasmanian Journal," 

 states that " about the commencement of September these birds congregate in immense 

 flocks, and shortly afterwards proceed at sunset to the different isles upon which they 

 have established their rookeries. Here they remain during the night for the space of 



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