OcEAN WANDERERS 
these ocean wanderers, and have come to know 
them quite intimately, as they are seen in this part 
of the world. Yet a most interesting part of their 
career is still buried in obscurity. ‘The Shearwaters 
are now believed to breed in the Antarctic regions 
during the southern summer, about January or 
February. Like their allies Ane Petrels, they nest 
in burrows in the ground or holes in cle After 
this they start wandering, and where do they not 
go over earth’s oceans? ‘They wander up the 
southern seas, cross the equator, and, according to 
the fishermen, appear off Nova Scotia and on the 
“Banks” about the first of May, following the 
migration of various fish. ‘They are found all over 
the northern ocean until autumn, when they gradu- 
ally withdraw, as cold weather comes on. The 
fishermen rarely or never see them in winter, and I 
myself have seen but one, a Greater Shearwater, I 
took it to be, the last day of one December, about 
eight miles ate Chatham. 
thes jaceers;, on the contrary, are: raised: in 
northern latitudes, in the short summer of the 
barren arctic solitudes. ‘Thence they begin to wan- 
der down to the New England coast in July. By 
August they become common, and in September 
and October they are abundant in suitable localities 
on the ocean. With the advent of winter most of 
them proceed further south. 
Our Petrels are both northerners and southerners. 
There are two kinds common on our coast— 
Leach’s and Wilson’s Petrels. ‘The only perceptible 
difference between them is that the former has 
forked tail and black webs between its toes, the latter 
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