MONOGRAPH OF THE PETRELS. 



proved that the name P. bulweri was published in 1828, while that of P. anjinho appeared 

 in 1829. A full account of the controversy is given in Mr. Fisher's paper on the 

 birds of Laysan, in the "Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission," Vol. XXIII., p. 794. 

 A further reason for adopting Jardine's name is that Heineken described his bird as 

 having a forked tail, while that of P. bulweri is cuneiform. 



Bulwer's Fulmar breeds, according to Dr. Heineken, in the Madeira and Canary 

 groups of islands ; the birds arrived in March and begin to lay early in June. The 

 young are hatched in July, and after September but few are seen till the following 

 spring. These birds are purely nocturnal in habits and although very rarely found 

 in flocks like Shearwaters, remain almost constantly at sea, except during the 

 breeding season ; they may then be found in considerable numbers on the Desertas, 

 whence many eggs, now in the British Museum, were procured by Padre Schmitz. 



During my visit to the Little Deserta in 1871, I found B. bulweri breeding in 

 some numbers, for the most part at the foot of the cliffs under the fallen rocks 

 (Ibis, 1872, p. 223). Mr. Ogilvie-Grant obtained specimens on Deserta Grande (Ibis, 

 1890, p. 443) ; he observed them on Lime Island, Porto Santo, and on the Great 

 Salvages, but in all these places the nesting season had not commenced (Ibis, 1896, 

 pp. 54-55). Mr. Meade- Waldo found them under similar conditions in the Canary 

 Islands, where it was called by the natives " Tahoce negro " (Ibis, 1893, p. 207). 



Several specimens of P. bulweri have been captured in England, or picked up dead 

 on the coast. One obtained at Ure, near Tanfield in Yorkshire, was exhibited by Professor 

 Newton at a meeting of the Zoological Society in November, 1887. Others were taken 

 at Scarborough in 1849, at Beachy Head in 1903, and a female at St. Leonards in 1904 ; 

 while a fifth was picked up at St. Leonards in a dying state on February 4th, 1908. 

 Mr. Ridgway considers the claim of P. bulweri to be an American species very doubtful. 

 It is said to occur off the coast of Greenland, the Leyden Museum possessing a specimen 

 believed to have been sent from there by the missionaries (Schlegel, M us. Pays-Bas, 

 VL, Procell., p. 9, 1863) ; though said to occur in the Bermudas Mr. Ridgway considers 

 it very rare. 



The species is also recorded from Nikko, in Japan, as well as from the Volcano and 

 Bonin Islands, and it passes down the Chinese coast on migration, since an example 

 was procured at Chapel Island, Amoy, in 1894 ; there are two fine specimens from 

 Foochow in the British Museum presented by Mr. C. B. Rickett. B. bulweri likewise 

 occurs in the Hawaiian Islands, and is stated by the Hon. W. Rothschild to be very 

 common on French Frigate Island, where it was found by Mr. H. Palmer breeding under 

 the shells of dead turtle which had been heaped up by a shipwrecked crew. When 

 Mr. Palmer visited Laysan, the breeding season was over, and the birds only came 

 ashore at night (Rothsch. Avif. Laysan, pt. I., p. 51). This Fulmar was also found 

 breeding in considerable numbers on Necker Island, and Bird Island. It was recorded 

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