PETRELS 489 



and P. stincldcmdi of Ridgway and other American 

 writers is the same bird. In P. griseus the bill is 

 described as horn colour ; tarsi and toes dark hazel ; 

 under wing coverts greyish-white, each feather with 

 a dark shaft. The colour of the mantle in all the 

 Shearwaters is very similar, being of a uniform sooty- 

 brown or slaty-black hue, varying in intensity pro- 

 bably according to age and season. 



CAPPED PETREL. (E.^trelata hsesitata (Kuhl). Length, 

 16 in. ; bill, 175 in. ; wing, 11-25 in. ; tarsus, 1-5 in. 



Hah. Atlantic coast, from Florida to New York, a,nd 

 the West Indies. 



One, Southacre, near Swaffham, spring 1850 : Newton, 

 Zool, 1852, p. 3691, figure; Yarrell, "Hist. Brit. Birds," 

 3rd ed., vol. iii. p. 643, figure; Stevenson, "Bhds of 

 Norfolk," vol. iii. p. 361, coloured plate by Wolf. 



Ohs. A specimen of this Petrel, said to have 

 been killed in the English Channel, is preserved 

 in the Museum at Boulogne-sur-Mer. 



This is the Diablotin of the French Creoles of 

 Guadeloupe and Dominica, as shown by Col. Feilden, 

 who has published a most interesting account of its 

 *' deserted domicile " in the latter island [Trans. 

 Norf. Nat. Soc, vol. v. p. 24). According to the 

 earliest printed notice of this bird in the French 

 Antilles by Pere du Tertre (1666-71), " Hist. Gen. des 

 Antilles." ii. p. 257, it is said to have been named 

 Diahle a cause de sa laideur, or, as Ober has it, 

 " from its uncommonly ugly appearance " (" Camps in 

 the Caribbees," 1880. p. 141). An excellent coloured 



