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THE CAPPED PETREL. 



CESTRELATA H.liSITATA (Kuhl). 



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

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

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

 into 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 Hock- 

 wold Hall, near Prandon, 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 de- 

 tailed account of this bird, with two illustrations, is given by Pro- 

 fessor Newton in 'The Zoologist' for 1S52, 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 ; and Mr. W. Engle Clarke has 

 identified a specimen in the Buda-Pesth Museum which, according 

 to Dr. Madarasz, was killed near Zolinki in North Hungary in 

 1870; but in neither case can the pedigree be considered quite 



