1891.
June 19
(No 3)
Atlantic Ocean.
Lat. 51 [degrees] 14' N. Lon. 13 [degrees] 30' W.
Bill long, slender and uniformly black
or nearly so. I am now convinced that this
Petrel is a small species of Puffinis *
I saw only one small Petrel (probably Procellaria 
pelagica) among the hordes of Puffini just
described and two others, apparently of the 
same species, later in the day. As we neared
the Irish Coast I watched carefully for Gulls
and Terns but not one came in sight.
A large school of Porpoises gamboled about
us for a short time but they found their
match for speed in the Etruria which
slowly but steadily drew ahead of them.
This fixes the speed of the Porpoise (this
species, a small light greenish animal, at 
least) at something less than twenty miles
per hour the rate at which we were moving.
* While in London I examined the fine
collection of Petrels at the British Museum
without finding anything which matched 
closely the species above mentioned. Nor 
could Mr. Salvin, the great authority on
this group, name it from my description.
It certainly was not P. anglorum which,
among other discrepancies, lacks the white
nuchal collar. My birds resembled P. major
most closely in general color and markings
but the differences which they showed in
size and form were too great to be ignored
or reconciled