bulwer’s petrel. 
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interior of the island, the highest of which attain to an eleva- 
tion of 2,700 feet- 
Nest. — None. 
Eggs. — U nknown . 
THE BLACK SHEARWATERS. GENUS BULWERIA. 
Bulweria, Bp. Cat. Met. Ucc. Eur. p. 81 (1842)- 
Type, B. bichveri (Jard. & Selby). 
The genus Buhverm differs from the 
sub-famUy Fuffininm in its long and a e’ and 
• nasal tubes are fleshy at the end, tl^ . g p J; t, ’ 
directed forwards and upwards. (Cf. balvin. Cat. B. Bnt. 
Mus. XXV. p. 36S). 
I. bulwer’s petrel, bulweria bulweri. 
Procellaria bulweri, Jard. & Selby, III p™- P’- ^5 (183°) i 
Lilford, Col Fig. Brit. B. part _vn. (1888). 
Thalassidroma bulweri, Macgill Bnt. B. v. p. 449 p 5 )• 
““ ?s;'s) “ w- Bp . 7 » 
(1883); Saunders, ed. Yarrclls Brit. B. iv. p. 34 (1 4)) 
p- 4^° 
(1896). 
Adult Male.— General colour above sooty-black, with a 
greyish shade over the head and back, the scapu ars, g 
coverts and inner secondaries with obsolete brownish margins , 
greater coverts distinctly ashy-grey externally ; quilp ana ai - 
feathers black ; under surface of body sooty-black, with an 
ashv shade ; the chin, upper throat, and fore-part of cheeks clear 
slatv-erev • under wing-coverts sooty-black, like the breast, the 
sStcr and qoilHining more «h, ; bill black ; the 
Lsi and base of toes greyish-pink, black fo. the term, nal halt 
of both toes and webs; trts brown- Tot.d lei..th 
io'9 inches; culmen, o‘8s ; wing, 8 o, tail, 4 35 j ‘ ’ 
Adult Female.— Similar to the male. Total length, 10-7 
inches; wing, 7-8. 
