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COL. H. W. FEILDEN ON THE DESERTED DOMICILE 
Ash. This tree escaped in an extraordinary manner. One lost 
an arm at Congham, another had a rotten arm broken off at 
Rising, and a Pollard tree was broken at Setch, but these were 
exceptions. It was curious to see Oaks and Elms with dangling 
branches on the road sides; but the Ashes, although many of them 
were loaded with their still attached fruit, standing intact. The 
cause of the escape of the Ash trees from injury is that they 
possess relatively so few small twigs as compared with the Elms 
and Oaks, so that the collective weight of rime which each Ash 
tree bore was much less than either of the other two. 
The Evergreens, Laurels, Hollies, Yews, and Conifers generally, 
all escaped injury; the action of rime-frost herein contrasting 
strongly with that of snow. 
No Sycamore, Plane, or Beech, was seen by me to be injured. 
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THE DESERTED DOMICILE OF THE DIABLOTIN 
IN DOMINICA. 
By Colonel H. W. Feilden, F.G.S., C.M.Z.S. 
Read 18 th May, 1889. 
At first sight, it may appear somewhat incongruous that the time 
of the meeting should be occupied in reading a paper on a species 
of bird whose head-quarters appear to have been the West Indies 
and Caribbean Sea ; nevertheless the Diablotin possesses a peculiar 
interest in connection with the county of Norfolk, for there can be 
little doubt that the Diablotin of the French Creoles of Guadeloupe 
and Dominica is identical with the Capped Petrel ( (Estrelata 
luesitata, Kulil), the only specimen of which ever obtained in 
Britain was the example captured at Southacre, near Swaffham 
in Norfolk, during the spring of 1850. 
