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The type of " Pterodroma caribbaea " is preserved in the Dublin Museum, 

 and three specimens are in the British Museum. This bird is one of the rarest in 

 collections, and all modern collectors have failed to obtain specimens. Quite 

 recently (1906) Mr. B. Hyatt Verrill published a pamphlet entitled "Additions 

 to the Avifauna of Dominica." In this unpaginated essay he said under the 

 heading " Aestrelata jamaicensis" : "Not uncommon (on Dominica), but 

 seldom seen during the day. Breeds at La Bime, Pointe Guignarde, and 

 Lance Bateaux, as well as at Morne Rouge and Scott's Head. In many of 

 the above localities the musky odour of these birds is very pronounced when 

 passing the cliffs, wherein they breed, on a calm evening. At dusk they may 

 often be seen flying about the cliffs in company with myriads of bats that 

 spend the day in the fissures and crevices. They are very difficult to 

 procure, and although shot at repeatedly only two specimens have been 

 obtained." 



From all former evidence we might have well considered this species 

 to be extinct, but if Mr. Verrill's statement is correct it would be far from 

 exterminated. I do not, however, know if the Dominica specimens have 

 been compared with Jamaica examples, and if Mr. Verrill's determination 

 (apparently made on Dominica) is therefore correct. 



Habitat : Jamaica. 



