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of Petrel. ‘“ On the authority of Colonel Dalton, of 
Hemingford, near Ripon, we are enabled to add this 
rare species to the Fauna of Britain, from a fine 
specimen which was found on the banks of the Ure, 
near Tanfield, in Yorkshire, on the 8th May, 1837, 
and which could not have been long dead, as it 
admitted of being mounted as a good cabinet 
specimen, and is now in the possession of Colonel 
Dalton. As it is stated to be an inhabitant of 
Madeira and the adjacent islands, we may infer 
that the seas bounding the western shores of 
Africa constitute its true habitat.” 
PoE Eh Age sPebiaD: 
WHITE-HEADED PETREL. 
PROCELLARIA H#SITATA, KuAl. 
But very few examples of this species of Petrel 
are to be met with in collections. One was 
obtained in the Indian Ocean, another in the 
Australian Seas, and a third in the South Seas. 
One is now in the British Museum, which was 
brought from Hayti; and another which was taken 
in the West Indies. Only one specimen has been 
obtained in England, captured near Swaffham, in 
Norfolk, in the spring of 1850, a detailed account 
of which appeared in the “ Zoologist,” in 1852, 
(page 3661,) with two illustrations. Of its eggs, 
and manner of nesting, nothing appears to be known. 
