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South Orkney Islands and South Georgia ; also probably in the South 

 Sandwich Islands, and on Bouvet Island. 



Range.— All the oceans of the world except the North Pacific. 

 North in the Pacific Ocean to about 5° or 6° South (rare north of 

 the Equator). North in the Atlantic Ocean to the coast of Labrador, 

 Resolution Island (62° ) , and Great Britain. Westward into the Gulf 

 of Mexico (Vera Cruz and Louisiana coast). Eastward into the 

 Mediterranean Sea (Sardinia) . South to the Antarctic continent, the 

 Great Ice Barrier (78° South), and Weddell Sea ^(72° South). 

 Pacific Ocean birds have been named as a distinct subspecies. 



/Spring migration. — Northward in the Atlantic Ocean in March, 

 April, and May. Recorded dates: South Georgia, March 15; Pata- 

 gonia, Rio Gallegos, April 7 ; Brazil, Barra, April 27 ; Equator, April 

 25; Bermuda, May; North Carolina, Cape Hatteras, April 18; 

 Barbados, May 8 ; Azores, May 21 ; New Jersey, May 9 ; Maine, May 

 28; Newfoundland, Cape Race, May 29. 



Fall migration. — Southward in the Atlantic Ocean in September, 

 October, and November. Recorded dates: Maine, September 17; 

 Massachusetts, September 23 ; New York, October ; Equator, October 

 14; Brazil, Fernando Noronha, October 16; South Orkneys, No- 

 vember 11; South Georgia, November 23. 



Casual records. — Accidental in California (Monterey, x\ugust 24, 

 1910). Has wandered inland in North America to Pennsylvania 

 (Columbia, August 29, 1893), to northern Ontario (Muskoka dis- 

 trict), and to other less remote localities. Accidental in Spain, 

 France, and Italy. 



Egg dates. — Kerguelen Island: Four records, January 23 to Feb- 

 ruary 11. Cape Horn: One record, January 2. South Orkney 

 Islands: One record, February 12. Mauritius Island: One record, 

 March 15. Adelie Land: Three records, December 1, 14, and 18. 



FREGETTA LEUCOGASTRIS (Gould). 

 WHITE-BELLIED PETREL. 



HABITS. 



One accidental occurrence of this rare species on the coast of 

 Florida is all that justifies us in recording this handsome little petrel 

 as a North American bird. The following account of the capture is 

 given by Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway (1884) : 



So far as we are aware, the black-and-white stormy petrel is only known to 

 have been taken in a single instance within our waters, and its claim to a place 

 in the fauna of North America rests entirely on the capture of these specimens 

 on the Gulf coast of Florida. Seven examples of this bii'd are said to have 

 been captured with a hook and line by the captain of a vessel while at anchor 

 in the harbor of St. Marks, Florida. One of these was secured by Mr. John 



