CAPPED PETEEL.
(ESTRELATA HAH SIT AT A (Kuhl).
Procellaria hasitata, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. i. p. 142; Temm. PI.
Col. 416; Newton, Zool. 1852, p. 3691.
(Estrelata hsesitata, Dresser, viii. p. 545; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 8.
One occurrence. Prof. Newton recorded that in
March or April, 1850, a boy captured and killed a bird
of this species on a heath at Southacre, near Svvaffhain
in Norfolk. This bird was preserved by the late
E. C. Newcome and placed in his collection.
Two casual occurrences of this Petrel have been reported
from the Continent of Europe ; but its home is or
was the islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe, where it was
once not uncommon. Recent travellers, however, have
failed to discover it in its old haunts. But that other
colonies of it exist seems to be certain from the fact that
three specimens were captured or found dead in as many
places in the Eastern States of America after the great
cyclonic storm which devastated the coast of South
Carolina on August 26-27, 1893 (cf. Allen, Auk, 1894,
p. 241). [0. S.J