PUFFINIDA. 745 
RUS 
THE CAPPED PETREL. 
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CEstRELATA H#sITATA (Kuhl). 
The subject of the illustration was observed by a boy in March 
or April 1850, on a heath at Southacre, near Swaffham in Norfolk, 
flapping for some time from one furze-bush to another, until it 
got entangled in one of them, and was secured ; when, although 
exhausted, it had strength enough remaining to bite the hand of 
its captor, who thereupon killed it. The late 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, by whom it was skinned 
and mounted, and in whose collection it found a place. A detailed 
account of this bird, with two illustrations, is given by’ Professor 
Newton in ‘ The Zoologist’ [1852], p. 3691. 
In the Museum at Boulogne there is a Capped Petrel sazd to 
have been shot near that town many years ago by its donor, a 
sportsman long since deceased; but the pedigree cannot be 
considered quite satisfactory. A Petrel of the genus in the Buda- 
Pesth Museum has lately proved to have been wrongly assigned to 
this species. No other occurrences are recorded from Europe, and 
