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and Sir Joseph Banks in the Endeavour. This sketch is now 

 in the British Museum, where it appears as " No. 13" under 

 Solander's unpublished name Procellaria cequorea, in a MS. volume 

 called Banks's Drawings. It then became the Frigate Petrel 

 of Latham's Synopsis, and the Procellaria marina of the same 

 author's Index Omithologicus. 



1 The bird is now known to have a wide range in the southern 

 hemisphere. Gould's collector Gilbert discovered it breeding 

 on some of the small islands lying off Cape Leewin, south- 

 western Australia, in December, where he procured numbers of 

 its eggs as well as many examples of the adult birds. He also 

 met with it on a small island about three miles south of East 

 Wallaby Island in January, when the young birds were almost 

 ready to leave their holes (Gould, B. Austr. vol. vii. pi. 61)- 

 The most northern locality where P. marina has been observed 

 hitherto is the Canary Isles. Here it would appear to be not 

 common, though many observers have either procured specimens 

 or recognised it when flying over the sea.. The bird from 

 these islands was named Procellaria hypoleuca by Webb and 

 Berthelot. Mr. Salvin concludes his notes by remarking that 

 "the specimen from Walney Island agrees closely with ex- 

 amples from the South Seas and the Canary Islands now in the 

 British Museum." I should be happy to submit the specimen 

 to any brother member of the B.O.U. who may entertain any 

 desire to see it.' 



The man who found these birds subsequently left Barrow for 

 Girvan. A fisherman named Gillespie, still resident at Barrow, 

 saw the birds before they were taken to Williams, and says that, 

 though taken together to Williams, they were found washed up 

 on different days. As a matter of fact, the Wilson's Petrel was 

 much staler than the other birds, and had probably been kept a 

 few days at least longer than the Frigate Petrel. 



The lines which follow, and which not unfitly close this Book, 

 were composed by my friend the poet after examining the skin 

 of the above-mentioned Frigate Petrel : — 



Whence, wanderer of the ocean, have you come ? 



Could not the sun's perpetual glory please, 



Where under waves of hyacinth, white trees 



Of coral glance, where round the palm-roots foam 



