BULWER'S PETEEL. 



PROC ELL ARIA BULWERII, Jardine # Selby. 



Procellaria bulwerii, Jardine and Selby, 111. Orn. ii. pi. 65 

 {circa 1829). 



Puffimis columbinus, Moquin-Tandon, Orn. Canar. p. 44 

 (1841). 



Thalassidroma bulwerii, Macg. v. p. 449 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 522. 

 Bulweria colombina, Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 34. 

 Bulweria columbina, Dresser, viii. p. 551. 



The drawing for the Plate was taken from a specimen 

 very kindly lent to me for the purpose by Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke, who informed me that it was picked up dead 

 on Tanfield Bridge, near Ripon, on May 8th, 1837. It 

 was exhibited by Professor A. Newton at a meeting of 

 the Zoological Society in November 1887, and Mr. Eagle 

 Clarke wrote about that time to me, stating his intention 

 of depositing it in the Leeds Museum. This, according 

 to the Editor of ed. 4 Yarrell's 'British Birds,' was the 

 only authenticated British example of this species known 

 at the time of his writing. 



Bulwer's Petrel is reported as common in the Canarian 

 group of islands, and in the Desertas near Madeira. 



