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tE. haesita'ta. (Lat. hcEsitata, stuck ; the describer was in doubt about it.) Black-CAPPED 

 Petrel. Diablotin. Adult: Forehead, sides of head, neck all round, upper tail-coverts, 

 base of tail, and all under parts, white ; back clear bistre-brown (nearly uniform, but the 

 feathers often with paler or ashy edges), deepening on wings and terminal half of tail; crown 

 with an isolated blackish cap, and sides of head with a black bar (younger birds with white of 

 head and neck behiuil restricted, so that these dark areas run together). Bill black; tarsi and 

 base of toes and webs, iiesh-colored (drying yellowish) ; rest of toes and webs, black. Length 

 16.00; extent 39.50; wing 11.50-12.00; tail 5.25, its graduation 1.50; tarsus 1.40; middle 

 toe and claw 2.12; bill 1.40, 0.66 deep at base, 0.40 wide ; tube 0.33. A rare bird, native of 

 some of the West India Islands, as Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Dominica, of casual 

 occurrence on the Atlantic coast, U. S. (P. brevirostris and P. meridionalis Lawr. Ann. 

 Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. iv, 1848, p. 475; v, 1852, p. 220, pi. 1.5) ; and in Europe (Zool. 18.52, 

 p. 3691 ; Ibis, 1884, p. 202). A specimen was taken Aug. 30, 1893, at Blacksburg, Va., 200 

 miles inland (Auk, Oct. 1893, p. 361); and three others in October, 1898, on the Ohio River 



Via. 708. — CEstrelata Fislieri. Ridgw. 



at or near Cincinnati (Auk, Jan. 1899. p. 75). Pwc. hasitata Kihl. ^strelata hasitata 

 A. 0. U. iniss])elling both words. Proc. diabolica Lafr. 1844. 



CE. scala'ris. (Lat. scalaris, pertaining to a ladder or stairs ; scaln, a staircase ; referring to 

 the markings of the upper parts. Compare scalnris as a name of the ladder-backed Wood- 

 peckers of the genus Dnjobates.) Scaled Petrel. Form typical of Q'Jsti eldta im nhoyc, 

 .-izc small. Adult: Upper parts, including tail-coverts and c.vposcd surfaces of tail-feathers, 

 jiure cinereous, deepening to plumbeous on hind head, rump, and lesser wing-coverts; feathers 

 of back and greater and middle wing-coverts tipped with ashy-white. Under parts pure 

 wliite ; ash of upper parts coming down sides of neck and deepening as it extends more broadly 

 al(»ng sides and quite across abdomen, which is plumbeous — this color with vague and nebu- 



