16 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Gekus HALOCYPTENA Coues. 



Halocyptena Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XVI] 18G4, No. 2, 

 March-April [June 30], 78. Type, by orig. desig., Halocyptena micro- 

 soma Coues. 



Halocyptena microsoma Coues. Least Petrel. [103.] 



Halocyptena microsoma Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XVI] 1864, 

 No. 2, March-April [June 30], 79. (San Jose del Caba, Lower Cali- 

 fornia = San Jose del Cabo.) 



Range. — Pacific coast of America from Lower California to Ecuador. Breeds 

 on the San Benito Islands and on several islands in the Gulf of California. 



Subfamily OCEANITINAE. Long-legged Storm Petrels. 



Genus OCEANITES Keyserling and Blasius. 



Oceanites Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelth. Eur., I, 1840, xciii, 131, 

 238. Type, by subs, desig., Procellaria wilsonii Bonaparte = P. 

 oceanica Kuhl (Gray, 1841). 



Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl). Wilson's Petrel. [109.] 



Proc[ellaria] oceanica "Banks," Kuhl, Beitrage ZooL, 1820, 136 (pi. 10, 

 fig. 1). (Locality not given = South Georgia Island.) 



Range. — All oceans except the Pacific north of the Equator (once 

 taken at Monterey, California), north to Labrador and Great Britain, Gulf 

 of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea and south to the Antarctic Continent. Breeds 

 on Maiu-itius, Kerguelen Island, Adelie Land and Victoria Land, South 

 Shetland, South Orkney, and South Georgia islands. Accidental in Ontario 

 (Lake Muskoka). 



Genus FREGETTA Bonaparte. 



Fregetta Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. (Paris), XLI, No. 17 

 (for Oct. 22), 1855, 1113. Type, by orig. desig., Thalassidroma leuco- 

 gaster Gould. 



* Fregetta tropica tropica (Gould). White-bellied Petrel. [110.] 



Thalassidroma tropica Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, XIII, 

 No. 85, May 1, 1844, 366. (In the Atlantic where it is confined to the 

 equatorial regions being most abundant in the vicinity of the line = 

 South Atlantic Ocean.) 



Range. — Southern oceans north to the Bay of Bengal, and in the Atlan- 

 tic Ocean to the Tropic of Cancer. Breeds on Tristan da Cunha. Accidental 

 at St. Marks, Florida.^ [An allied race breeds on islands in the southern Indian 

 Ocean, South Georgia, Falkland Islands, etc.] 



1 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., V, 1851, 117. 



