Additional species 



The following list contains seven additional species, generally pelagic, 

 which were reported by other observers at sea or on shore in the northern 

 Chesapeake Bight. 



BLACK-BROWNED ALBATROSS ( Diomedia melanophris ) 



Status . --Hypothetical in the northern Chesapeake Bight; vagrant (acci- 

 dental) in the North Atlantic. 



Records . --"An ad and imm black-browed albatross were carefully observed 

 flying together off Cape May Point (New Jersey) October 7, 1974 (Scott and 

 Cutler 1975). 



Remarks .- -A vagrant from the Southern Hemisphere in the north, this 

 species is most often seen in the northeast Atlantic (Bourne 1967). 

 McDaniel (1973) reported three sightings in the northwestern Atlantic 

 since 1935. There have been a few additional, unsubstantiated reports 

 since then. All documented albatross sightings off the U.S. Atlantic 

 coast have been yellow-nosed albatrosses. 



WHITE-FACED STORM PETREL ( Pelaqodroma marina ) 



Status . --Probably a casual late summer and fall vagrant over the 

 Continental Shelf. 



Records .--! recorded "20 miles" E Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, 26 August 

 1972 (Barnhill and DuMont 1973). 



Remarks. --Several mid- and late summer records in the western North 

 Atlantic suggest post-breeding wandering in small numbers from breeding 

 areas in the mid-eastern Atlantic (Palmer 1962, Buckley and Winston 1970). 



WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD (Phaethon lepturus ) 



Status . --Probably a casual late summer and early fall vagrant over 

 warm s 1 ope waters and eddies of the Gulf Stream along the edge of the 

 Continental Shelf. 



Records . --Philip B. Stanton (personal communication) observed an adult 

 approximately 120 km E Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (ca 37°00'N, 74°37'W), 

 Virginia, on 24 September 1975. Butcher et al. (1968) listed several re- 

 cords of tropicbirds seen over deep water north to 40°N, between 68°W and 

 the Continental Slope. Although these locations are east of my survey 

 area, the presence of tropicbirds at these latitudes is worthy of mention. 



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