PUFFINIDA. 747 
THE COLLARED PETREL. 
CESTRELATA BREVIPES (Peale). 
The subject of this illustration was presented to the British 
Museum by Mr. J. W. Willis Bund, who obtained it with a very 
satisfactory history. The bird was killed at the very end of November 
or the beginning of December, 1889, between Borth and Aberystwith, 
and was first shown to the Rev. J. M. Griffith, vicar of the parish of 
Llanfihangel Geneu’r Glyn, who advised the man who shot it to 
take it to the Aberystwith bird-stuffer, Hutchins, from whom 
Mr. Willis Bund afterwards bought it. A short notice of the 
occurrence was given by Mr. J. E. Harting in ‘The Zoologist’ for 
1890, p. 454, and a full account of the species and its distribution, 
with a coloured figure, appeared in ‘ The Ibis’ for 1891, pp. 411-414, 
pl. ix, from the pen of the late Mr. Salvin. At that time the bird 
was known as C@. torguata (Macgillivray), but it subsequently 
proved to be identical with the Proce/laria brevipes of Peale, whose 
name has considerable priority. 
The home of this Petrel is in the Western Pacific, and southward 
to the great ice-barrier in lat. 68°, whence Peale obtained his 
specimen. John Macgillivray met with it on Aneiteum, one of the 
New Hebrides, and specimens were subsequently obtained from the 
islands of Tanna and Erromanga, as well as in the Fiji group. 
“ Macgillivray says that on Aniteum this Petrel breeds in burrows 
on the wooded mountain-tops in the interior of the island, the 
highest of which attains an elevation of 2,700 feet. A young bird, 
not many days old, and covered with black down, was brought to him 
