BULWER’S PETREL.
Thalassidroma? Bulwern.

Procellaria Bulwern, Jard. & Selby.

Own the authority of Col. Dalton of Slenningford, near Ripon, we are enabled to add this rare species to th
Fauna of Britain, from a fine specimen which was found on the banks of the Ure, near Tanfield in Yorkshire,
on the 8th of May, 1837, and which could not have been long dead, as it admitted of being mounted into a
It is now in the possession of Col. Dalton, who doubtless regards it as one of the

good cabinet specimen.
In fact, with the exception of one or two foreign examples, we do

greatest treasures in British ornithology.
not recollect that we have observed it among the numerous collections we hay
The only recorded facts relative to its history will be found in the second volume of ‘Illustrations of Orni-
thology,’ by Sir William Jardine and Mr. Selby, in which publication the bird is figured from a specimen
sent from Madeira by Mr. Bulwer, after whom it has been named. As it is stated to be an inhabitant of
Madeira and the adjacent islands, we may ‘nfer that the seas bounding the western shores of
‘ts true habitat. ‘The cuneated form of its tail and its large size will readily distinguish it from all the other

e had opportunities of examining.

Africa constitute

species of its genus.
We cannot conclude our
loan of his specimen for the

account of this bird without offering our sincere thanks to Colonel Dalton for the
Oxley, Esq., of Ripon, who in this

purpose of illustration as well as to C.G:
st in the present work.

has taken a kind and friendly 1ntere

instance and upon all other occasions
The whole of the plumage is of a deep sooty black, becoming paler upon the throat,

bill black ; legs and feet blackish brown.

edges of the greater wing-coverts ;
Our figure is of the natural size.

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