CAPPED PETEEL. 



(ESTRELATA HMSITATA {Kuhl). 



Procellaria hasitata, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. i. p. 142 ; Temm. PI. 



Col. 416; Newton, Zool. 1852, p. 3691. 

 CEstrelata hsesitata, Dresser, viii. p. 545 ; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 8. 



One occurrence. Prof. Newton recorded that in 

 March or April, 1850, a boy captured and killed a bird 

 of this species on a heath at Southacre, near Swaffham 

 in Norfolk. This bird was preserved by the late 

 E. C. Newcome and placed in his collection. 



Two casual occurrences of this Petrel have been re- 

 ported from the Continent of Europe ; but its home is or 

 was the islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe, where it was 

 once not uncommon. Recent travellers, however, have 

 failed to discover it in its old haunts. But that other 

 colonies of it exist seems to be certain from the fact that 

 three specimens were captured or found dead in as many 

 places in the Eastern States of America after the great 

 cyclonic storm which devastated the coast of South 

 Carolina on August 26-27, 1893 (cf. Allen, Auk, 1894, 

 p. 241). [0. S.] 



