LONG-LEGGED OK WILSON'S PETREL
OCEANTTES OCEANICUS (Kuhl).
Procellaria oceánica, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. p. 136 (1820).
Thalassidroma wilsonii, Macg. v. p. 456.
Oceanitcs oceanicus, Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 4 8 ; Dresser, viii.
p. 505.
This Petrel, about whose habits I know nothing from
personal observation, has been met with occasionally in
England, and it is not improbable that it may have
sometimes escaped special notice or record, from having
been mistaken for a more common British species of the
family to which it belongs. I quote from the 4th
edition of ' Yarrell' to the effect that it has been found
breeding on Kerguelen Island, and that its range appears
to extend over the South Atlantic to Australia and New
Zealand, and across the South Pacific to Chili and Peru.
In the North Atlantic it is common along the American
coasts, visiting the West Indies and Mexico. These
statements are followed by a detailed and very interesting
account of the breeding-habits of this Petrel as observed
on Kerguelen Island by the Rev. A. E. Eaton. I gather
from these details that the general habits of this species