. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. PUOCELLARIIDyE — THE TETRELS — BULWERIA. 399 ? Procellaria nnjlnho, Heixekev, Ediub. Jonr. Sci. Oct. 1829. PaJlimis coliuiihimin, Moijl'IN-Taxdox, in Webb & Ik-rtli. Nut. Hist. Cuiiar. H. 1841, 44, pi. 4. fig. '1 (PruccUuriii columbina on iiKite). Bulwerui colambiim, Duesskh, 15. Eur. VIII. 1871, 551. liuluxr's Petrel, Yauu. Brit. B. ed. 2, III. 030, tiy. ; od. 3, HI. 6G4, fig. IIab. EiLsteni Atlantic, including,' coasts of Europe and Africa. Accidental in Orennlnnd. Sp. (!hau. Adult: Uniform f
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. PUOCELLARIIDyE — THE TETRELS — BULWERIA. 399 ? Procellaria nnjlnho, Heixekev, Ediub. Jonr. Sci. Oct. 1829. PaJlimis coliuiihimin, Moijl'IN-Taxdox, in Webb & Ik-rtli. Nut. Hist. Cuiiar. H. 1841, 44, pi. 4. fig. '1 (PruccUuriii columbina on iiKite). Bulwerui colambiim, Duesskh, 15. Eur. VIII. 1871, 551. liuluxr's Petrel, Yauu. Brit. B. ed. 2, III. 030, tiy. ; od. 3, HI. 6G4, fig. IIab. EiLsteni Atlantic, including,' coasts of Europe and Africa. Accidental in Orennlnnd. Sp. (!hau. Adult: Uniform fuliginoiis-dusky, lighter, more grayish l)ro\vn underneath, tlie wings blackish, exce])t the greater coverts, wliich are liglit grayish brown, like the lower parts. Bill Idack ; legs and feet brownish (in dried skin). Wing, inches ; tail, , its graduation, ; culnien, .85 ; tarsus, . ; middle toe, . bird is said to be an occasional visitor to the Bermudas; but its occiu'rence there must be very rare, and due to accidental circumstances; and its chiim to be received into the Nortli American fauna appears to me to be very doubtful. The first published mention of Uulwer's Tetrel was made l)y Selby and Jardine, in the second volume of their Illustrations ; and it was there described from specimens pro- ciu'cd by Mr. Bulwer, a gentleman who had been living for several years in j\ladeira, wliere this bird was ascertained to be resident during its breeding-season, (diiefly on tlic small adjacent islets. Dr. Scldegel also claims to possess an example of this Petrel procured in Green- land. Gould, in the twenty-second number of liis "liritisli IJirds," mentions a single instance of its occurrence in England ; tins was on the banks of the Tire, near Tan- fichl, in Yorkshire, May 8, 1837, where a specimen of this bird was found which liad boen dead but a short time; and Mr. Dresser records another, taken off Scarborough in tlie spring of 18
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