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states that it is also found on Tanna and Erromango, in 

 the same group of islands, found it breeding in burrows 

 on the wooded tops of mountains in the interior of the 

 islands, but unfortunately failed to obtain eggs. A 

 young chick covered with black down was brought to 

 him on the 14th of February. This Petrel perhaps 

 breeds too near to the Equator to have any very regular 

 or extended normal migration north, and it can only be 

 looked upon as a very rare straggler to the Northern Seas. 

 It is cause for surprise that the eggs are still unknown to 

 science. There can be little doubt that this Petrel also 

 breeds on the Fiji Islands, as it was obtained on Fiji in 

 1878 by Kleinschmit. The laying season is probably 

 December and January. 



Family PROCELLARIID.^. Genus CEstrelata. 



CAPPED PETREL. 



CEstrelata h^esitata {Kuhl). 

 (British : Very rare abnormal migrant.) 



According to Mr. Salvin, our highest authority on this 

 family of birds, the home of the Capped Petrel is on the 

 Windward Islands, some of the most southerly of the 

 West Indies. It probably also breeds on various islets 

 off the coast of Venezuela, but at present nothing what- 

 ever is known of its nest and eggs, whilst its exact 

 breeding area still remains undefined. Breeding as it 

 most certainly does so near to the Equator, its migrations 

 are necessarily very restricted, and its appearance in our 

 seas purely abnormal. 



