1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 257 



now in the National Museum, also another taken near the Navy 

 Yard Bridge, on June 5, 1891, by Wm. Bayley. Wm. Palmer 

 has two; one was shot from a bunch of three or four on August 

 29, 1893, the other was captured alive in a house on Capitol 

 Hill a few days later" (Richmond). 



Oceanites oceanicus (109). Wilson's Petrel. 



I have been greatly interested in watching these birds as they 

 flew round the vessel, on several sea trips I have made. Under 

 date of August 20, 1884, I find the following: "Cleared the 

 capes last night at 11.30 P. M., and this morning we have the 

 petrels, which stay with us all day, the Maryland shore being 

 in sight. One is partly albino, having a white breast, belly 

 and back, separated from the usual white by a sooty line," 



The only inland record I can find is " one taken many years 

 ago and presented to the Smithsonian" (A. C, 110). "This 

 was shot on the Potomac River about 1859" (Richmond). 



Order STEGANOPODES— Totipalmate Swimmers. 



Family Sttlid^e — Gannets. 



Sula bassana (117). Gannet 



Occasionally taken on the Chesapeake, three specimens so 

 recorded have been presented to the Maryland Academy of 

 Sciences, where two of them are at present, the other, now in the 

 Johns Hopkins University, taken many years ago at Chester- 

 town, was presented by Mr. Colin Stam(sen ?) through Mr. J. J. 

 Thomsen. On April 21, 1894, one was taken in Rock Hall Cove 

 and forwarded alive to the Academy by Dr. A. P. Sharp. Mr. 

 John Murdock presented a mounted specimen on June 6, 1892, 

 referring to which he writes me : " The bird I presented to the 

 Maryland Academy of Sciences was killed a short time previ- 

 ously in the lower part of the Chesapeake Bay, near Mobjack 

 Bay ; I have never seen them above that point ; generally they 

 go in pairs." 



