CAPPED PETREL. 



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corded in Europe — one preserved in the museum in 

 Boulogne, is said to have been shot near that town ; and 

 a second, killed in 1870, at or near ZoHnki, in Hungary, 

 was recognised in the Museum at Buda-Pesth, by Mr. 



lip" 



W. Eagle Clarke ("Ibis," 1884, p. 202). Two speci- 

 mens have been obtained in the United States ; but it 

 is certain that the true home of this very rare species is, 

 or was, in the islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica, in the 

 West Indies, where it was undoubtedly once abundant. 

 One of its old breeding-places in the last named of these 

 islands was explored, but without finding a single bird, 

 in February, 1889, by Colonel Feilden, who on the 18th 

 May in that year read an admirable paper on " The 

 Deserted Domicile of the Diablotin" — the name by 

 which it was known to the inhabitants — to the Norfolk 

 and Norwich Naturalists' Society, which will be found 

 printed in their " Transactions," vol. v., p. 24. Therein 

 he gives copious extracts from the interesting accounts of 

 the old voyagers, which are indeed all that is left to us 

 of the history of the species.^ From the information he 



* The authorities cited by Colonel Feilden being mostly rai-e 



and difficult of access, it may be convenient here to state that they 



are : — Du Tertre " Histoire Generale des Antilles," ii., j). 257 (Paris : 



1667-71) ; Labat, " Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de I'Amerique," 



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