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PEOCBLLARIID^ 



DAPTION 



Distribution. — This, one of the most abundant and well known 

 of all the Petrels, is spread over the whole of the Southern "Ocean, 

 reaching the Antarctic Ice Pack, where many examples were 

 recently procured by the "Southern Cross" Expedition; its usual 

 northerly limit is about the southern Tropic, but it has frequently 

 been recorded from further north, even as far as the coasts of the 

 United States and of the British Islands in the Atlantic, and the 

 Ceylon coast in the Indian Ocean. 



FiQ. 150. — DapHon capensis. 



The Cape Pigeon is one of the commonest of the Petrels found 

 in the Cape seas. It can be seen in Table Bay especially during the 

 winter months, frona April to November, but during the summer it 

 departs southwards to breed. It occurs on the west coast up to 

 the Great Fish Bay, and has been obtained at Mossamedes and 

 Bengo Bay near St. Paul de Loando in Angola. To the east of 

 Table Bay the Cape Pigeon is apparently a good deal less plentiful ; 

 both Eickard and Brown state that it is very rarely seen in Algoa 

 Bay, and I have not heard of its occurrence off East London or 

 Durban, though Capt. Sperling states that he has traced it up to 



