THE MANX SHEARWATER 



The food is chiefly fish, cuttle-fish, and other animal matter. 

 The Levantine Shearwater, Puffimis yelkouanus, which takes the place of the 

 Manx Shearwater in the Mediterranean, where it is known to the inhabitants as 



.a, 



A me damne'e, is occasionally seen off the coasts of the British Islands. It scarcely 

 differs from our bird, being only somewhat larger and browner. 



THE CAPPED PETREL. 

 CEstrelata hcesitata (Kuhl). 

 Plate 80. 



An example of this very rare, if not extinct, species was captured alive near 

 SwafTham, Norfolk, in March or April 1850. 



Formerly it inhabited the Lesser Antilles in some numbers, its last known 

 breeding-place having been the island of Dominica, where the birds nested in holes 

 in the ground at some considerable elevation. The egg is apparently unknown. 



THE COLLARED PETREL. 



CEstrelata brevipes (Peale). 

 Plate 80. 



About the end of November or beginning of December 1889 a specimen of this 

 Petrel, the only one recorded in the British Islands, was obtained between Borth 

 and Aberystwith in Wales. It breeds in the New Hebrides and Figi Islands in 

 the Western Pacific Ocean, and appears to occur southwards as far as the limits of 

 the Antarctic ice. 



The Collared Petrel was found nesting in burrows high up on the moun- 

 tains on an island of the New Hebrides by John Macgillivray, but no eggs 

 were obtained. 



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