BIRDS OF XEW YORK 



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southern seas, Avhcre it nests during the antarctic summer. It thus repre- 

 sents with us better than any other species the reverse of normal migration. 

 Mr Butcher's dates are from June i to vScptcmbcr 14. Sometimes it appears 

 in great numbers at Rockaway, 

 Fire Island inlet and Gardiners 

 bay, during June, July and Au- 

 gust. A specimen from Lock- 

 port, X. Y., October 1875, i^ 

 reported by Davison, Auk, vol- 

 ume I, page 294; and David 

 Bruce had a specimen from 

 Orleans county, N. Y., taken in 

 November 1882. 



This is the common Storm\- 

 petrel, or Mother Carey's chicken, 

 of our sailors, which is so often 

 seen coursing back and forth 



about the 



shii) 



waiting 



for 



scraps of food to be thro^^■n 

 overboard. 



Wilson putrel. Oceanites oceanic us (KuhlJ From 

 Andubon, Birds of America, i nal. si^c 



Order STEGAXOPODES 



Totipalmatc Birds 

 Order Pelccaniformcs, Sharpc's Hand-List 



Feet completely webbed, the hind toe being large, low down and partly 

 lateral, connected with the inner toe In* a full web; bill horny, usually hooked 

 at the tip and furnished with a nail ; gape very capacious ; nostrils ver\- small 

 or rudimentary ; a gular pouch ; tongue small and knoblike ; palate decidedly 

 desmognathous ; basipterygoids wanting; sternvim short and broad; upper 

 ann bones very long. 



Birds of this order number about sevent}- species included in six fami- 

 lies, the darters, or snake birds (Anhingidae) not being found in New York, 



