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of Petrel. u On the authority of Colonel Dal ton, 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 Tire, 

 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." 



PETREL, CAPPED. 



WHITE-HEADED PETREL. 

 PROCELLAEIA. H^ESITATA, Kuhl. 



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 Hay ti ; 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 a Zoologist/' in 1852, 

 (page 3661,) with two illustrations. Of its eggs, 

 and manner of nesting, nothing appears to be known. 



