WHITE-FACED PETREL
PELAGODROMA MARINA (Latham).
Procellaria marina, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 826.
Thalassidroma marina, Gould, Birds Austr. vii. pi. 61.
Pelagodroma marina, H. A. Macpherson, Ibis, 1891, p. 602;
Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 51 ; Dresser, Suppl. p. 399.
Two occurrences. The Rev. H. A. Macpherson
records that after a severe gale, in November 1890, a
dead bird of this species was washed ashore on Walney
Island with a number of other birds, including a
Wilson's Petrel. Mr. W. Eagle Clarke (Bull. Brit. Orn.
Club, no. 41, p. xxviii) reports that on 1st January,
1897, a female of this Petrel was captured alive by the
margin of a stream on the west side of the island of
Colonsay, and that the specimen is now preserved in
the Museum of Science and Art at Edinburgh.
The bird has a very wide range over the seas of the
southern hemisphere and breeds on some islands lying
near Cape Leeuwin, the southwesternmost corner of
Australia, and elsewhere.
It has long been noticed in the neighbourhood of the
Canary Islands, and quite recently Mr. Ogilvie-Grant
found a well-established colony on Great Salvage Island,
north of the Canary group. Many pairs were breeding
there at the end of April 1895. This colony brings
Pelagodroma marina comparatively near our shores.
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