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THE COLLARED PETREL. 



CESTRELATA BREVIPES (Peak). 



The subject of this illustration was presented to the British 

 Museum by Mr. J. W. Willis Bund, who obtained it with a very 

 satisfactory history. The bird was killed at the very end of November 

 or the beginning of December, 1889, between Borth and Aberystwith, 

 and was first shown to the Rev. J. M. Grififith, vicar of the parish of 

 Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn, who advised the man who shot it to 

 take it to the Aberystwith bird-stuffer, Hutchins, from whom 

 Mr. Willis Bund afterwards bought it. A short notice of the 

 occurrence was given by Mr. J. E. Harting in ' The Zoologist ' for 

 1890, p. 454, and a full account of the species and its distribution, 

 with a coloured figure, appeared in ' The Ibis ' for 1891, pp. 411-414, 

 pi. ix, from the pen of the late Mr. Salvin. At that time the bird 

 was known as CE. torquata (Macgillivray), but it subsequently 

 proved to be identical with the Procellaria brevipes of Peale, whose 

 name has considerable priority. 



The home of this Petrel is in the Western Pacific, and southward 

 to the great ice-barrier in lat. 68°, whence Peale obtained his 

 specimen. John Macgillivray met with it on Aneiteum, one of the 

 New Hebrides, and specimens were subsequently obtained from the 

 islands of Tanna and Erromanga, as well as in the Fiji group. 

 " Macgillivray says that on Aniteum this Petrel breeds in burrows 

 on the wooded mountain-tops in the interior of the island, the 

 highest of which attains an elevation of 2,700 feet. A young bird, 

 not many days old, and covered with black down, was brought to him 



