THE BIOLOGICAL REVIEW. II 



says that " about the time of the severe revolving southerly gale 

 of the 30th of January, 1870, an individual of this species was 

 driven into the harbor of Halifax, and was secured." 



Mr. Montague Chamberlain, in his " Catalogue of Canadian 

 Birds." mentions the above record (Halifax), and another taken 

 near St. John, N.B. 



Dr. J. H. Gamier, of Lucknow, in answer to an enquiry, 

 writes, " Regarding the Porphyris Martinica (Linn), I saw only 

 one, some ten years ago. It was on the St. Clair Flats, and 

 was killed by some boys, who destroyed it by pulling its head 

 from the body, and otherwise mutilating it. However, there 

 was no doubt as to the identity of the bird, and 1 greatly 

 regretted its loss." 



Hubert H. Brown. 



MSTRELATA HASITATA TAKEN AT TORONTO. 



On October 30, 1893, a rnale specimen of the Black-capped 

 Petrel was picked up at the water's edge on Toronto Island, by 

 Mr. George Pierce, who gave the bird to Mr. Oliver Spanner. 



It measured as follows : — Length, 15 inches ; wing, ii-j^. 



The bird had evidently been in the water for a considerable 

 time. 



To show to what extent this species wanders sometimes, I 

 will give Baird, Brewer and Ridway's account of their habitat. 



"Warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, straying to Florida, 

 England and France."* 



Dr. Coues speaks of them as "of casual occurrence on the 

 Atlantic coast, U.S." 



In the winter of 1846, one specimen was taken off the coast of 

 Florida, and another was shot on Long Island in July, 1850. 



Mr. Ellison A. Smyth, Jr., records in The Auk (Vol. X., 1893, 

 p. 361) the capture of another specimen in Virginia, about 200 

 miles inland, on August 30, 1893, "two days after the great 

 cyclone." 



The visits recorded are undoubtedly accidental, and show 



*Baird, Brewer & Ridway : Water Birds, Voir II., p. 395. 



