BITLWER'S PETREL.
PROCELLAMA BULWERII, Jardine $ Selby.
Procellaria bulwerii, Jardine and Selby, 111. Orn. ii. pi. 65
(circa 1829).
Puffiims columbinus, Moquin-Tandon, Orn. Canar. p. 1 I
(1841).
Thalassidroma bulwerii, Macy. v. p. 4 1 9 ; 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 comn: jn in the Canarian
group of islands, and in the Desertas near Madeira.