NA TA TORES. 



CAPPED PETREL. 



643 



THE CAPPED PETREL. 



Procellaria hcesitata. 



Procettaria hcesitata, FOEST. Icon. ined. fig. 92. 



White-headed Petrel, KUHL. Temm. 1820. 



hcesitata, Petrel liasite, TEMM. et LAUG. Planches Color. 



No. 416. 

 hcesitata, FORST. Descr. Anim. byLichet. 



(1844), p. 208. 



THE PETREL represented above was observed by a boy 

 on a heath at Southacre, near S waff ham in Norfolk, 

 flapping for some time from one furze-bush to another ; 

 at length it got into one of the bushes, and was then 

 secured by him : exhausted as it was, it had strength 

 enough remaining to bite violently the hand of its captor, 



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