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by the bird-watcher from the shore as they generally keep well outside. As an 

 illustration of their great numbers it may be stated that I have seen over five 

 thousand of these birds in one day off the eastern coast of Labrador. 



[90] Puffinus puffinus (Briinn.). Manx Shearwater. — The doubtful record of 1855 

 may possibly refer to a similar species, the Bermuda Shearwater. 



35 [95] Puffinus griseus (Gmel.). 

 Sooty Shearw.\ter; "Black Hag" or '"Hagdon." 



Not uncommon summer visitor. March to October. 



On August 19, 1913, in a strong northeast blow I was at the beach at Ipswich. 

 The sea was high and the waves were breaking for the space of half a mile from 

 the shore. Skimming close over the breakers was a single Sooty Shearwater. 

 At one time he actually flew over a projecting point of the beach, over a bit of the 

 soil of Essex County. ]\Ir. Charles R. Lamb records the taking of a female of 

 this species off Rockport on May 29, 1916.^ 



[97] Priofinus cinereus (Grael.). Black-tailed Shearwater. — As stated before, an 

 erroneous record. 



36 [106] Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieill.). 



Leach's Petrel. 



Uncommon transient visitor. June 21 ; September 4 to November. 



Mrs. Edmund Bridge found the dead and frozen body of a bird of this 

 species at Nahant Beach on December 21, 1907. How long since the bird was 

 living it is impossible to say. The following record from Nuttall- was overlooked 

 in the original Memoir : " A few years ago Mr. Ives obtained a straggler in the 

 vicinity of Ipswich, on the coast." DamselP notes that one was shot on October 

 16, 1887, at Kimball's Pond in Amesbury some eight miles from the coast. 



37 [109] Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl). 

 Wilson's Petrel; "Mother Carey's Chicken"; "Stormy Petrel." 

 Abundant summer visitor off the coast. June i to September 2^. 

 Mr. C. R. Lamb found this species abundant off Rockport on June i, 1914, 



1 Lamb, C. R. Auk, vol. 35, p. 233, 1918. 



- Nuttall, Thomas. A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada. 

 Vol. 2, The Water Birds, p. 326, 1834. 



3 Allen, G. M. Auk, vol. 30, p. 3, 1913. 



