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SULIDJE. 

 166-t Sula bassana Brisson. Common Garnet. 

 " Abundant on the coast." — Board/nan. 



167.* Sula fusca Linne'. Booby Gannet. 

 A few were seen on the coast near St. Augustine by Mr. Boardman. 

 Mr. Maynard also observed it at Cape Canaveral 



PHALACROCORACID-EI 



168.* Graculus floridanus Bonaparte. Florida Cormorant. 

 Common on the St. John's, and, according to Mr. Boardman, abun- 

 dant on the coast. 



PLOTID.E. 

 169* Plotus anhinga Linne'. Snake Bird. Water Turkey. 

 Abundant. Breeds in February and March, sometimes nesting in the 

 tops of the highest trees, and sometimes quite low. Both sexes incubate. 



PROCELLARID.S3. 



I70.t Oceanites oceaniea Coues. Wilson's Stormy Petrel. 

 "A few about the coast at Fernandina." — Boardman. 



171.t Puffinus major Fabricius. Greater Shearwater. 

 " A few about the coast at Fernandina." — Boardman. 



LARID.^ 



172. t Larus argentatus Briinnich. Herring Gull. 



Common. Seen up the St. John's as far as Hibernia. 



On my voyage from New York to Augusta, Ga., on my way to 

 Florida, small parties of these gulls, numbering usually six to twenty, 

 were almost constantly hovering near the vessel. In the Bay of New 

 York, as along the coast of New England, and doubtless along that of 

 all the Atlantic States at this season, the birds in immature plumage 

 far outnumbered the others ; but a hundred miles from land all the gulls 

 of this species seen were old birds, which accords with observations of 

 mine made on other winter voyages in the North Atlantic. It hence 

 appears that the young birds are less venturesome than the adult, and 

 keep mainly near the land. This accords also with the well-known 

 fact that young birds, in migratory species, do not generally attain so 



