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resorts, if any, within our limits, nothing is known ; the 

 birds being chiefly seen in winter. In other regions 

 they resort by thousands to breed in particular spots, 

 laying a single large white egg in recesses of the rocks. 

 Like many other birds of their family, they may be 

 taken with hook and line, as noted by Dr. Brewer in the 

 following extract: "On Monday, November 4, 1878, I 

 saw a living specimen in the yard of Mr. George O. 

 Welch, of Lynn, Mass., to whom it had been sent to be 

 mounted for the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. James 

 W. Milner writes me that this specimen of the Fulmar 

 Petrel was taken by Captain William Sweet, of the fish- 

 ing schooner Grace C. Hadley, on a codhook, on the 

 eastern part of the George's Bank, which is a very little 

 south of east of Boston, and certainly belongs to the 

 New England coast. It was taken October 28, 1878." 

 (Bull. Nutt. Club, iv, 1879, p. 64.) 



The bird was admitted to our fauna by probably 

 all writers upon the subject, until expunged by Dr. 

 Brewer, shortly before the note above quoted was 

 published (see Pr. Bost. Soc, xvii, 1875, p. 453). 



STORMY PETREL ; MOTHER CAREY'S 

 CHICKEN. 



PrOCELLARIA PELAGICA L. 



Chars. Blackish, more fuliginous below, the greater wing-coverts 

 more grayish, the quills, tail, bill, and feet black ; upper tail- 

 coverts white, with black tips, and usually some white under the 

 tail and wings ; no yellow on the webs ; tail a little rounded. 

 Length, 5.75 ; wing, 4.75 ; tail, 2.50 ; bill, 0.50, its height at base 

 0.20 ; tarsus, 0.90 ; tibiae bare 0.33. 



