95. DAPTION CAPENSIS (Linn.). 



(CAPE FULMAR.) 



(Plate 80.) 



Pintado Petrel, Dampier, Voy. III., p. 66, fig. 1 (1729) ; Forster, Voy. I., p. 489 (1777) ; 



Lath., Gen. Syn., III., pt. 2, p. 401 (1785). 

 White and Black-spotted Peteril, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, II., p. 90, PL 90, fig. 1 



(1747). 

 Le Petrel tachete appelle vulgairement Damier, Brisson, Orn., VI., p. 146 (1760). 

 Procellaria capensis, Linn., Syst. Nat., I., p. 213 (1766). 

 Le Petrel blanc et noir, ou le Damier, Buff., Hist. Nat. Ois., X., p. 146 (1786). 

 Daption capensis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII. , pt. 1, p. 241, PI. 28 (1826) ; Gould, 



Birds Austr., VII., PI. 53 (1843) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, pp. 162, 



171 ; Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 46 (1870) ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 



p. 299 (1873) ; Sharpe, Phil. Trans., Vol. 168, p. 118 (1879) ; Salvin, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 428 (1896). 

 Procellaria punctata, Ellman, Zool., 1861, p. 7473. 

 Fulmarus capensis, Gray, Handl. Birds, III., p. 107 (1871). 

 Calopetes capensis, Sundev., Av. Meth. Tent., p. 142 (1872). 

 Daptium capense, Coues, Checkl. N. Amer. Birds, p. 126 (1882) ; Saunders, ed. 4, Yarrell, 



Brit. Birds, IV., p. 11 (1884). 

 Daptrion capensis, Tacz., Orn. Perou, III., p. 465 (1886). 

 Daption capense, Seebohm, Ibis, 1888, p. 309 ; Reichenow, Deutsche Sudpolar Exped., 



IX, Zool., L, p. 553 (1908). 



Ad. Fuliginoso-niger, albo variegatus : scapularibus et secundariis albis, nigro ter- 

 minatis : facie laterali et gutture fuliginoso-nigris : corpore reliquo subtus albo. 



The Cape Fulmar, often called the " Cape Pigeon," occurs in large flocks in the South 

 Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans, and is a familiar object to those who travel to the 

 Cape and Australia, though seldom seen north of the Equator. It is found on both 

 coasts of South America, but is more commonly recorded from the Atlantic than the 

 Pacific side. The breeding haunts of D. capensis are in the far south, and it has been 



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