PUFFINID.'E. 



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THE CAPPED PETREL. 



QiSTRELATA H.^SITATA (Kuhl). 



The subject of the illustration was observed by a boy in March 

 or April 1850, on a heath at Southacre, near Swaffham in Norfolk, 

 flapping for some time from one furze-bush to another, until it 

 got entangled in one of them, and was secured ; when, although 

 exhausted, it had strength enough remaining to bite the hand of 

 its captor, who thereupon killed it. The late Mr. Newcome, of 

 Hockwold Hall, near Brandon, fortunately happened at the time to 

 be hawking in the neighbourhood of Swaffham ; and his falconer, 

 John Madden, observing the boy with the dead bird, procured it 

 from him, and brought it to his master, by whom it was skinned 

 and mounted, and in whose collection it found a place. A detailed 

 account of this bird, with two illustrations, is given by Professor 

 Newton in 'The Zoologist ' [1852], p. 3691. 



In the Museum at Boulogne there is a Capped Petrel said to 

 have been shot near that town many years ago by its donor, a 

 sportsman long since deceased ; but the pedigree cannot be 

 considered quite satisfactory. A Petrel of the genus in the Buda- 

 Pesth Museum has lately proved to have been wrongly assigned to 

 this species. No other occurrences are recorded from Europe, and 



