68 EEPOET OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Pelagic, rarely straggling in to the coast. 



TurnbuU says very rare; a few seen every year on the Atlantic off 

 the coast. Chapman says it is irregularly common, from early June 

 to October, off the coast.^ We have no record of capture on the New 

 Jersey coast. 



92 Puffinus rherminieri Lesson. 

 Audubon's Shearwater. 



Adults. — Length, 11. Wing, 7.60-8.40. Above, black ; below, white ; run- 

 ning well up on the lores and nearly to the eye. 



Very rare straggler from the South. 



Audubon's Shearwater has been taken on Long Island, and is proba- 

 bly the bird mentioned by Turnbull, under the name Manx Shear- 

 water, as an accidental visitor to the coast in autumn. Mr. Ridgway 

 includes New Jersey in its range in his manual. 



94 Puffinus griseus (Gmelin). 



Sooty Shearwater. 



Adults. — Length, 16. Wing, 11.50-12. Entire plumage, sooty black ; slightly 

 lighter below. 



Occasional off the coast, June to November. 



A pelagic species, occasionally straggling in to the coast. Turnbull 

 says, "Occasional along the sea shore, from the South," and Chapman 

 regards it as much less common than the Greater Shearwater. 



Curiously enough, all the Shearwaters captured on the New Jersey 

 coast belong to this species. The records are as follows : 



Delaware Bay; 1858. Thos. Beesley.^ 



Below Atlantic City ; June 3d, 1893. Prof. J. Remington.^ 



Fishing banks off Five Mile Beach. Capt. John Taylor^ (two speci- 

 mens). 



Sea Isle City; May 25th, 1898. Theo. L. DeBow.^ 



1 Birds Vicin. of N. T., 1906, p. 138. 

 == Coll. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 

 » Laurent, O. and O., 1892, p. 43. 



