Black-capped Petrel in New Hampshire. — Recently Mr. Henry W. 
Osgood sent me a photograph (see Plate XXII) of a Black-capped Petrel 
(AEstrelata hasitata) taken at Pittsfield, N. H., August 30, 1893, but not 
hitherto recorded. 1 The locality of capture is forty miles from the sea. 
The specimen was a male, and fell, in an exhausted condition, near Mr. 
Osgood’s home. Its stomach was empty. This is the first record of the 
species for New Hampshire, though previously reported from Vermont. 
This straggler from tropical seas has the following North American 
records : (1) Near Indian River, Florida, winter of 1846 (Lawrence, Ann. 
Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, IV, p. 47.5). (2) Quoque, Long Island, N. Y., 
July, 1850 (Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, V, 1852, p. 220). 
(3) Blacksburg, Va., Aug. 30, 1893 (Smyth, Auk, X, 1893, p. 361). (4) 
Oneida Lake, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1893 (Bagg, Auk, XI, 1894, 162). (5) 
Toronto, Canada, Oct. 30, 1893 (Mcllwraith, Birds of Ontario, 1894, p. 
414). (6) Vermont, place and date not recorded (Allen, Auk, XI, 1894, p. 
241). (7) New Paltz, Ulster Co., N. Y., Jan. 26, 1895 (Foster, Auk, XII, 
1895, p. 179). (8) Cincinnati, Ohio (two specimens), Oct. 3, 1898 (Lin¬ 
dahl, Auk, XVI, 1899, p. 75). (9) Augusta, Ky., Oct. 4, 1898 (Lindahl, 
Auk, XVI, 1899, p. 75). (10) The New Hampshire specimen recorded 
above — ten records, eleven specimens.— J. A. Allen, Am. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., New York City. . 3^3 
1 Since this note was sent to the printer I have received a copy of . Mr. 
Glover M. Allen’s ‘ A list of the Birds of New Hampshire’ (Proc. Manchester 
Institute of Arts and Sciences, IV, Pt. 1, pp. 23-222), in which (p. 69) occurs 
the following: “A single specimen was captured at Pittsfield, in Merrimack 
County, in August, 1893, and beyond an anonymous paragraph in the Boston 
Sunday Plerald (’93), appears not to have been recorded. The bird is now in 
the mounted collection of Mr. William Brewster, No. 46,076, catalogued 
under date of August 30, 1893. Doubtless the bird was blown up the coast 
by the tropical hurricane of the last week of August in that year,” with also 
Nos. 3, 4, and 6 of the above list. 
In a letter just received Mr. Osgood confirms Mr. Allen’s statement that the 
New Hampshire specimen, recorded above, is now in Mr. Brewster’s collection. 
