4U4 THE TUBE-HOSED SWIMMERS — TUBINA] 



.the upper tail-coverts, except the 

 ririte. Lower parte, with anterior 

 i 



- : culnien, .40-. 45 ; tarsus, .90 ; middle toe. .CO-.G5. 



The Least Petrel — supposed to be the original ■■ Mother Carey's Chicken " of the 

 sailors — appears to be an exclusiv . species. Common nearly all the 



- is rarely found near the land, 



•rtain seasons 



part of summer, it is found just outside of 



and in the Bay of Fundy. So far as I am aware, 



it breeds only on different portions i ist of Europe and in tin 



Lin, and is not known to breed on any part of the American coast. It has also 

 b on the ea-" I: is found in Iceland; but. according 



there. It is more 



: rhern islands of Fugloe and Naalsa . 5 .all flocks ai 



in autumn on th.- \ ren into the 



It has not been found breeding on the Scandinavian coasts. It is occasi 



; ■ irt of Finland. It 

 is quite common in 1 t of Scotland, and breeds in con- 



siderable numbers on several of the I - met with more or less abundantly 



rn and nor- 3 ^raffa. Iona. 



numerous around most 

 larger islands of that group, i thern bree^. i of Scot- 



land is j4 and of 



. — as off the Isle of Man, 1 - lly Islands, the Channel 



is, and many oth 

 Mr. T. L. Powys met with it in the Ionian Sea, near Pagania. in Decembe: 

 Mr. C.A.W] - ident all the year abou: 



and very common of the island ; breeding also on the neighboring 



ithout any nest. 

 Mr. A. G. M ^ on the S [slands, on Iona, 



3 

 Sir William Jardi- . as having 



met with it on the eastern coast of 

 where, between the lat . .mbesi and Zanzibar, it appe;.: 



■f the Zam athern range 



in that i _ 



Mr. Howard S 11 - - 



i-lands ju>: 

 aor. 

 In other pa .rulers of this species have been met 



with; but in all instan. - been fortuitous, and owing I 



inabilr f storms. In this mens have been obtained 



in Denmark. 



5t of Brittany, rs near 



