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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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MADEIRAN FORK-TAILED PETREL. OcEANODROMA CASTRO (Harcourt). An example of this species was picked up dead on the beach at Littlestone in Kent, on the 5th of December 1895, and was examined in the flesh by Mr. Boyd Alexander, to whom it now belongs. It was exhibited at a meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club on the 2gth of April following (Ibis 1896, p. 401). This Petrel was known by the scientific name of Oceanodroma cryptokucura (Ridgway), until Padre Ernesto Schmitz, of Madeira, drew Mr. Ogilvie Grant's attention to the fact that the species had been thoroughly diagnosed in 1851 by the late Mr. E. Vernon Harcourt, who found it on the Desertas islets, and named it Thalassidroma castro, because it was called " Roque de castro " by the Madeiran fishermen (Ibis 1898, p. 313). This discovery having been totally overlooked, the species was described as new by Mr. Ridgway in 1882, from examples obtained in the Hawaiian Islands, where others were subsequently procured for Mr. Scott B. Wilson, by Mr. Francis Gay (Aves Hawaiienses, pt. iv.). An American expedition to the GaMpagos, moreover, met with this species in that group; while, passing to the Southern Ocean, there are specimens in the British Museum from Australia and the Island of St. Helena. In 'The Auk' for 1897, p. 297, Mr. W. Palmer states that after the severe storms of August 23rd to 27th 1893, two birds of this species were picked up within the limits of Washington city. To continue the list of wanderers, Mr. Herluf Winge, in his fourteenth Report of Birds which have occurred at the Danish Lights, records that in 1896 an example struck the light-ship at Drogden, a few miles south of Copenhagen, on the 19th of

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