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Its flight, low over the water, is strong and swift, five or six rapid wing-beats being followed by a short sail.

94. Pumnus stricklandi Ridgw. SOOTY SHEARWMER; BLACK HAGDON. Ad. —Upper parts, Wings, and tail dark, sooty, brownish black; under parts somewhat grayer; bill blackish. L. ,17 00; W. ,12';00 Tar., 2'10:

B., 1' 65. Kenya—As far as known, North Atlantic; south on the American coast

to South Carolina. Long Island, uncommon in summer. Nest and eggs unknown.

“ Its flight and habits seem to be identical with those of major. but its uniform dark coloring gives it a very difierent appearance. At a distance it looks as black as a Grow ” (Brewster).

The BLACK-CAPPED PETREL (98. distrelata hesitate) is a southern species, which has been found on Long Island, in Florida, West Virginia, and Ver- mont. It bears a general resemblance to Pufinus major, but is much smaller and has the upper and under tail—coverts white.

The SCALED PETREL (9.9. ‘Estrelata scalaris) is known from one individual which had wandered to western New York. Its true home has not been dis— covered, but is doubtless in the Antarctic Ocean.

BULWER’s PETREL (101. Bulwen‘a bulweri) inhabits the eastern Atlantic Ocean, including the coasts of Europe and Africa, and is of accidental occur- rencein Greenland.

104. Procellaria. pelagica. Linn. Sroamr PETREL. Ari—Upper parts, wings, and tail sooty black ; under parts slightly browner; upper tail- coverts white, the longer ones broadly tipped with black ,' under tail—coverts mixed with whitish; bill and feet black. L., 5‘50; W., 4'80; T., 2'50: B., ‘45.

Range.—“ Atlantic Ocean, south on the American side to the Newfound- land Banks, west coast of Africa and coast of Europe ” (A. O. U.).

rest, of a few bits of sticks and grasses in a burrow in the ground or be- nenth a rock. Egg, one, dull white, sometimes with a wreath of minute or obscure markings at the larger end, 1' 10 x 80.

This' 15 the common Stormy Petrel of the east side of the Atlantic. It nests in numbeis on the small islands along the coast of Great Britain, but is only a transient visitant in our waters. It resembles the two following species in habits.

106. Oceanodroma. leucorhoa. ( Weill.) LEACII’s PETREL. Ad. —Uppcr parts, wings, and tail sooty brown; under parts slightly browner; wing—coverts‘ grayish brown; longer upper tail-coverts white, shorter ones mixed with sooty brownish; tailforked, outer feathers more than '50 longer than middle pair; bill and feet black. L., 8'00; W., 6'20; T., 3'50; B., '62.

[fang/e.—“ North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans; south on the coast of the United States to Virginia and California; breeds from Maine and the Hebrides northward on the coasts of the Atlantic ” (A. 0. U.).