. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PUFFINID^. 747. THE COLLARED PETREL. CESTRELATA BR^VIPES (Pcale). The subject of this illustration was presented to the British Museum by Mr. J. W. Willis Bund, who obtained it with a very satisfactory history. The bird waskilled at the very end of November or the beginning of December, 1889, between Borth and Aberystwith, and was first shown to the Rev. J. M. Griffith, vicar of the parish of Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn, who advised the man who shot it to take it to the Aberystwith bird-stuffer, Hutchins, from whom Mr. Willis Bund afterwards bough
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PUFFINID^. 747. THE COLLARED PETREL. CESTRELATA BR^VIPES (Pcale). The subject of this illustration was presented to the British Museum by Mr. J. W. Willis Bund, who obtained it with a very satisfactory history. The bird waskilled at the very end of November or the beginning of December, 1889, between Borth and Aberystwith, and was first shown to the Rev. J. M. Griffith, vicar of the parish of Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn, who advised the man who shot it to take it to the Aberystwith bird-stuffer, Hutchins, from whom Mr. Willis Bund afterwards bought it. A short notice of the occurrence was given by Mr. J. E. Harting in ' The Zoologist' for 1890, p. 454, and a full account of the species and its distribution, with a coloured figure, appeared in ' The Ibis' for 1891, pp. 411-414, pi. ix, from the pen of the late Mr. Salvin. At that time the bird was known as CE. torquata (Macgillivray), but it subsequently proved to be identical with the Procellaria brevipes of Peale, whose name has considerable priority. The home of this Petrel is in the Western Pacific, and southward to the great ice-barrier in lat. 68°, whence Peale obtained his specimen. John Macgillivray met with it on Aneiteum, one of the New Hebrides, and specimens were subsequently obtained from the islands of Tanna and Erromanga, as well as in the Fiji group. " Macgillivray says that on Aniteum this Petrel breeds in burrows on the wooded mountain-tops in the interior of the island, the highest of which attains an elevation of 2,700 feet. A young bird, not many days old, and covered with black down, was brought to him. 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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