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Its flight, low over the water, is strong and swift, five or six rapid 

 wing-beats being followed by a short sail. 



94. Piiffinus Strickland! Ridgw. Sooty Shearwater ; Black 

 Hagdoist. Ad. — Upper parts, wings, and tail dark, sooty, brownish black ; 

 under parts somewhat grayer ; bill blackish. L., IT'OU ; W., 12-00 ; Tar., 2-10 ; 

 B., 1-65. 



Range. — As fur as known, North Atlantic; south on the American coast 

 to South Carolina. 



Long Island, uncommon in summer. 



Isest and eggs unknown. 



" Its flight and habits seem to be identical with those of major, but 

 its uniform dark coloring gives it a very diflerent appearance. At a 

 distance it looks as black as a Crow " (Brewster). 



The Black-capped Petrel {9S. u^Estrelata Jiasitata) is a southern species, 

 which has been found on Long Island, in Florida, West Virginia, and Ver- 

 mont. It bears a general resemblance to Pujfinus major.! but is much smaller 

 and has the upper and under tail-coverts white. 



The Scaled Petrel {99. u^-Edrelata scalaris) is known from one individual 

 which had wandered to western New York. Its true home has not been dis- 

 covered, but is doubtless in the Antarctic Ocean. 



Bulwer's Petrel {101. Bulweria bulweri) inhabits the eastern Atlantic 

 Ocean, including the coasts of Europe and Africa, and is of accidental occur- 

 rence in Greenland. 



104. Procellaria pelagica Linn. Stormy Petrel. Ad. — Upper 

 parts, wings, and tail sooty black ; under parts slightly browner; upper tail- 

 coverts white, the longer ones broadly tipped with Mack ; under tail-coverts 

 mixed with whitish ; bill and feet black. L., 5-50 ; W., 4-80 ; T., 2-50 ; B., -45. 



Range. — '' Atlantic Ocean, south on the American side to the Newfound- 

 land Banks, west coast of Africa and coast of Europe " (A. O. U.). 



Nest., of a few bits of sticks and grasses in a l)urrow in the ground or be- 

 neath a rock. Egg., one, dull white, sometimes with a wreath of minute or 

 obscure markings at the larger end, I'lO x -80. 



This is the common Stormy Petrel of the east side of the Atlantic. 

 It nests in numbers on the small islands along the coast of Great 

 Britain, but is only a transient visitant in our waters. It resembles 

 the two following species in habits. 



106. Oceanodroma leucorhoa ( F*e^7Z.). Leach's Petrel. Ad. 

 — Upper parts, wings, and tail sooty brown ; under parts slightly browner ; 

 wing-coverts grayish brown ; longer upper tail-coverts white, shorter ones 

 mixed with sooty brownish ; tail forked^ outer feathers more than -50 longer 

 than middle pair ; bill and feet black. L., 8-00 ; W., 6-20 ; T., 3-50 ; B., -62. 



Range. — " North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans ; south on the coast 

 of the United States to Virginia and California; breeds from Maine and the 

 Hebrides northward on the coasts of the Atlantic" (A. O. U.). 



