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CAPPED PETREL. 







WHITE-HEADED PETEEL. 

 Procellaria haesitata, FORSTER. KUHL. TEMMIKCR 



Procellaria. Procella A storm. Hasifata A fictitious word 



from hcesito, to doubt doubted about. 



THIS Petrel has occurred occasionally in different and 

 widely-separated parts of the world, the Azores or Western 

 Islands; the Australian Seas, the Indian Ocean, and the South 

 Seas. 



Mr. Yarrell's account of the first British specimen of this 

 bird, taken from the source presently mentioned, is as follows: 

 'The Petrel represented above, was observed by a boy on 

 a heath at Southacre, near Swaffham, in Norfolk, flapping 

 for some time from one furze bush to another; at length it 

 got into one of the bushes, and was there secured by him. 

 Mr. Newcome, of Hockwold Hall, near Brandon, 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. This was in the spring of 1850, either in 

 the month of March or April.' 



The food of all the Petrels appears to be any thing that 

 can possibly be eaten. 'Chacun a son gout;' and theirs is to 

 have no taste for any one thing in preference to another. 



Female; length, about one foot four inches; bill, black; 

 iris, hazel brown. In front of and below the eye are a few 

 greyish black feathers, the latter spreading backwards, the 

 orbits surrounded with a ring of light brown. Forehead and 

 sides of the head, greyish white; head, crown, neck on the 



