26 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Subfamily Procellariin.e. Storm Petrels. 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieillot). Leach's Petrel. 



Pelagic. Rarely seen within the limits of this state. 



Connecticut records. Oct. 27, 1857, one shot by Geo. Meigs 

 on the Connecticut River above Hartford ;^ Merriam also records 

 (1876) that he himself has "twice seen it on the Sound in the 

 vicinity of Faulkner's Island, and near New Haven;" Sept. 17, 

 1903, a female picked up in Middletown, driven inland by a terrific 

 storm; Oct. 18, 1904, a specimen killed in Portland (both the 

 latter in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Oct., 1904, one taken by Mr. James 

 Truelove on Lake Wononscopomus, Lakeville (in coll. of 

 L. B. B.). Mr. Wm. Hansen reports seeing a mounted bird 

 vvhich was found dead in Torrington, Sept., 1902.^ 



Subfamily Oceanitin^. Long-legged Storm Petrels. 



Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl). Wilson's Petrel. 



We have no specific records of this species. Merriam char- 

 acterizes it as "not common; occurs off the coast in summer."^ 

 Linsley says that he has seen this species " not only in our Sound, 

 but even west of Stratford."^^ Mr. Holt of Lyme told W. E. T. 

 that this species " occasionally flies over land and is usually seen 

 hovering over fern bushes " (J. H. S.). 



About a dozen petrels, almost certainly of this species, were 

 seen in Long Island Sound not far from the mouth of New Haven 

 Harbor, Aug. 5, 1911, by L. B. B. ; and to this species should prob- 

 ably be referred three petrels seen by Mr. Edward Everit near 

 Branford Beacon, June 20, 1909. 



Order STEGANOPODES. Totipalmate Swimmers. 

 Family SULID^. Gannets. 



Sula leucogastra (Boddaert). Booby. 



The only record of this species in Connecticut is one taken at 

 Guilford by Linsley.* Merriam refers to it as " a rare and acci- 

 dental visitor from the South." 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., pp. 135-6. 



9 Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 290. 



•Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 136. 



* Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 130. 



