Birds of Toronto, Ontario. 
By James K.Fleming. 
Pt.I, Water Birds. 
Auk, XXIII, Oct., I90G, p.443. 
24. .ffistrelata hasitata. Black-capped Petrel. — I have in my 
collection two specimens, one a male picked up dead on Toronto Island by 
Mr. George Pierce, October 30, 1894 1 ; the other taken seventeen miles 
west on the lake shore by the late Mr. H. J. Baker, at about the same time, 
but the date is uncertain. The first bird was in very bad condition and 
must have been dead some days. 
The first bird is much grayer on the back and head than the second; 
the ash-gray edging of the feathers is very pronounced on the back, while 
in the second the edging is browner and scarcely visible, the whole back 
being dark brown instead of gray as in the first. In the second bird the 
crown is brown, almost black, shading to grayish brown on the back of 
the neck, which is not divided by a white band; the cheeks and ear coverts 
are like the crown; the feathers of the forehead are sooty brown edged with 
white. In the first the tarsi and toes are as described, but in the second 
they differ; the exposed portion of the tibia to just above the heel joint is 
yellow (in the dried skin), the joint itself all around, and the back of the 
tarsus brownish black, the front yellow, the toes and webs yellow to the 
first joint, the rest black. i Biological Review of Ontario, I, 1894, 11,12. 
