PUFFINUS (ESTRELATA 855 



bill dark horn-colour ; tarsi and toes greenish yellow ; webs yellowish 

 orange; iris dark brown. Culmen T2, wing 7*1, tail 2*85, tarsus T42 

 inch. 



Hob. The Australian and New Zealand seas ; the Atlantic 

 north to the Canaries and Madeira ; has occurred on the coasts of 

 Great Britain at least twice. 



In habits it "resembles P. obscurus. Mr. Grant says that it is 

 a very silent bird, but Mr. Boyd Alexander states that when on 

 the wing it continually utters a weird cry, karki-karrou, karki- 

 karroit,, karki-karroii. It breeds in holes, under boulders, and 

 in clefts of rocks, depositing a single white egg, which measures 

 about 170 by T32. 



I have carefully compared specimens from the North Atlantic 

 with those from Australia, and fail to find any difference, therein 

 agreeing with Mr. Salvin. 



(ESTRELATA, Bp., 1855. 



1177. CAPPED PETREL. 



OSSTRELATA H-ffiSITATA. 



(Estrelata hasitata (Kuhl.), Beitr. p. 142 (1820) ; Dresser, viii. p. 545, 

 pi. 618 ; Salvin, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxv. p. 402 ; Saunders, p. 745 ; 

 Eiclgway, p. 66 ; Lilford, vi. p. 148, pi. 64. 



Diablotin of French Creoles. 



Ad. (Hayti). Crown and nape blackish brown, the feathers white at 

 the base ; in front of and below the eye a few greyish black feathers ex- 

 tending to the ear-coverts ; upper parts sooty brown ; back of neck, upper 

 tail-coverts, anterior lores, and the whole of the under parts white ; tail 

 white on the basal two-thirds, black on the terminal third ; bill black ; 

 legs and feet yellow, the terminal portion of the toes and webs black. 

 Culmen 1'7, wing 11/4, tail 6'1, tarsus l - 52 inch. 



Hob. The Lesser Antilles ; Dominica and Guadaloupe ; has 

 occurred once in France and once in Great Britain; once in 

 Hungary. 



In habits it is said to be nocturnal, and lays up in holes during 

 the day, roaming about in search of food at night. It breeds in 

 holes, but, so far as I can ascertain, no collection is in possession 

 of an egg of this species. 



1178. SOFT-PLUMAGED PETREL. 

 GESTRELATA MOLLIS. 



(Estrelata mollis (Gould), Ann. and Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 363 (1844) ; (id.), 

 B. of Austral, vii. pi. 50 ; Ridgway, p. 63 ; Dresser, ix. p. 411, 

 pi. 721 ; Salvin, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxv. p. 406. 



