. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PUFFINID^,. 745. THE CAPPED PETREL. I CESTR^LATA H^SITAtA (Kuhl). The subject of the illustration was observed by a boy in March or April 1850, on a heath at Southacre, near Swafifham in Norfolk, flapping for some time from one furze-bush to another, until it got entangled in one of them, and was secured; when, although exhausted, it had strength enough remaining to bite the hand of its captor, who thereupon killed it. The late Mr. Newcome, of Hockwold Hall, near Brandon, fortunately happened at the time to be hawking in the neighbourhood of Swa
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PUFFINID^,. 745. THE CAPPED PETREL. I CESTR^LATA H^SITAtA (Kuhl). The subject of the illustration was observed by a boy in March or April 1850, on a heath at Southacre, near Swafifham in Norfolk, flapping for some time from one furze-bush to another, until it got entangled in one of them, and was secured; when, although exhausted, it had strength enough remaining to bite the hand of its captor, who thereupon killed it. The late Mr. Newcome, of Hockwold Hall, near Brandon, fortunately happened at the time to be hawking in the neighbourhood of Swafifham; and his falconer, John Madden, observing the boy with the dead bird, procured it from him, and brought it to his master, by whom it was skinned and mounted, and in whose collection it found a place. A detailed account of this bird, with two illustrations, is given by' Professor Newton in ' The Zoologist' [1852], p. 3691. In the Museum at Boulogne there is a Capped Petrel said to have been shot near that town many years ago by its donor, a sportsman long since deceased; but the pedigree cannot be considered quite satisfactory. A Petrel of the genus in the Buda- Pesth Museum has lately proved to have been wrongly assigned to this species. No other occurrences are recorded from Europe, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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