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Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean, and in the islands of the 

 middle Pacific from the Pelew Islands to the Galapagos group 

 the typical form of P. obscurus is met with, while in the 

 islands off western and southern Australia and New Zealand 

 P. o. assimilis occurs. 



Genus DAPTION Stephens, Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. 1826, 

 p. 239. 



Type : D. capense (Linn.). 



Daption, from dunna I tear and devour. 



Daption capense. CAPE PIGEON. 



Prooellaria capensis Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 132 : 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Daption capense (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 199 ; 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 1896, p. 428 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 750. 



Capense = of the Cape (of Good Hope). 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor ; 

 specimens have been recorded from the Dovey, Cardigan, 

 1879 ; Bournemouth, 1894 ; co. Dublin, Oct. 1881, but these 

 may have been imported. 



General Distribution. The Cape Pigeon inhabits the 

 southern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, breeding in Kerguelen 

 and in the South Orkney group. 



Genus FULMARUS Stephens, Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. 1826, 

 p. 283. 



Type : F. glacialis (Linn.). 



Fulmarus, latinized from Fulmar, akin to Foumart =a polecat, and mean- 

 ing "foul Marten"; cf. French putois (from putidus= fetid), Germ. Sti/nk- 

 warder, from the strong odour of the bird. The derivation from fulix n\arit = 

 Sea- coot is a mere guess. 



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