bulvver’s petrel. 
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PLATE CCCXXIL 
BULWER’S PETREL. 
THALASSIDROMA BULWERII. 
Bulwer’s Petrel is one of the rarest of British Birds; 
it has been figured by one or two Ornithologists, but we 
should hardly have done so in our present work if we had 
not been informed, very lately, that a second specimen had 
been taken at York by fishermen during the past winter, 
and that a third was killed off a collier at Scarborough. 
Our drawing is made from a specimen in the possession 
of Mr. Gardner, a bird-stuffer in London, and the dimen¬ 
sions were also obtained from the same specimen. 
The entire length, from the tip of the beak to the ex¬ 
tremity of the tail, is eleven inches ; the beak one inch ; 
the wing, from the carpus to the tip, eight inches ; the 
tarsus one inch ; the middle toe one inch and a quarter. 
The plumage of this bird is cinereous dusky, approaching 
to sooty black ; the greater wing-coverts are tipped with 
chocolate brown ; the beak and legs are black. 
Respecting the habits of the present species we can say 
