THE BIRDS OF NORFOLK.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your issue of October 31st, you speak of the notice of the capped petrel V(Estrelata hesitate) in Stevenson'a " Birds of Norfolk," Vol. III. The words are : " It is certain, says Mr. Stevenson, in his last and unfinished volume," &c. The passage is not one of Mr. Stevenson's, but it occurs in an article by Mr. T. Southwell, the well-known Norfolk naturalist -who so excellently completed what would have been the " un- finished volume."
By a misprint, you quote the date of February, 1887, for Colonel Feilden's visit to Dominica ; but the visit was in February, 1889. The paper on " The Deserted Domicile of the Diablotin " was read before the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society in May, 1889.
Mr. H. Stevenson died in August, 1888.—I am, Sir, &c.,
0. W. TANCOCK.
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