. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PROCELLARIID^. 733. WILSON'S PETREL. OcEANfxEs oceAnicus (Kuhl). This remarkably long-legged Petrel was noticed and figured as Procellaria pdagica by Wilson (Am. Orn. vii. p. 90, pi. Ix. fig. 6), under the impression that it was identical with the Storm-Petrel; but the earliest scientific description of it was given by Kuhl in 1820. In 1824 Bonaparte published a memoir on this and three more species, with the distinctive characters, measurements, and figures of each J and, in ignorance of Kuhl's name, proposed to call the bird Procellaria wihoti
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PROCELLARIID^. 733. WILSON'S PETREL. OcEANfxEs oceAnicus (Kuhl). This remarkably long-legged Petrel was noticed and figured as Procellaria pdagica by Wilson (Am. Orn. vii. p. 90, pi. Ix. fig. 6), under the impression that it was identical with the Storm-Petrel; but the earliest scientific description of it was given by Kuhl in 1820. In 1824 Bonaparte published a memoir on this and three more species, with the distinctive characters, measurements, and figures of each J and, in ignorance of Kuhl's name, proposed to call the bird Procellaria wihotii, in honour of the distinguished ornithologist, whose name can, however, only be handed down to posterity in the trivial appellation. In his memoir Bonaparte says, " I have never learnt that it has been seen on the coasts of Europe. I killed one, that had probably strayed, near the Azores "; and this appears to be the first printed notice of the occurrence of Wilson's Petrel near the European side of the Atlantic. As regards the British Islands, Gould observed this species in abundance off the Land's End in May 1838, and in November of the same year the specimen now figured was found dead near Polperro in Cornwall; an example has been picked up near Chippenham in Wiltshire; two have been obtained near Freshwater in the Isle of Wight (the last in the autumn of 1888); the late Mr. F. Bond recorded one from Sussex; one was shot near Halifax in Yorkshire in November 1874 ; and three. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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