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21. ^Estrelata hasitata (Kuhl). BLACK-CAPPED PET- 

 REL. 



An accidental straggler from the south Atlantic. A single 

 specimen was captured at Pittsfield, in Merrimack County, in 

 August, 1893, and beyond an anonymous paragraph in the Bos- 

 ton Sunday Herald ('93), appears not to have been recorded. 

 The bird is now in the mounted collection of Mr. William 

 Brewster, No. 46,076, catalogued under date of August 30, 1893. 

 Doubtless the bird was blown up the coast by the tropical hur- 

 ricane of the last week of August in that year. A second spec- 

 imen was taken on the same date, and "two days after the 

 storm," at Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Va., about 200 

 miles from the coast, as recorded on p. 361 of volume X of the 

 Auk. 



22. Oceaiiodroma leucorhoa ;Vieill.). LEACH'S PET- 

 REL. 



A common summer and autumn visitant off the coast, and of 

 casual occurrence inland, where it has been captured at Alstead, 

 a single specimen, September 29, 1897, now in the mounted col- 

 lection at the Ac worth Public Library ; Lancaster, two seen and 

 one of them shot, October i, 1897, on a small pond, by Mr. F. 

 B. Spaulding ('98a, p. 50) ; Manchester, one shot near the mill- 

 dam at Lake Massabesic, October 4, 1899, according to Mr. F. 

 W. Batchelder ( :oo, p. 123). 



23. Oceanites oceaiiicus (Kuhl). WILSON'S PETREL. 

 A common summer visitant off the coast. Mr. William 



Brewster ('83b, p. 402) has recorded them as being numerous 

 offshore between Cape Ann and Cape Sable in June. 1881, 

 and also informs me that he found them in great abundance be- 

 tween Portsmouth and the Isles of Shoals on July n, 1874. 



24. Sula bassaiia (Linn.). GANNET. 

 A spring and fall migrant off the coast. 



25. Phalacrocorax cliloplms (Swains.). DOUBLE- 

 CRESTED CORMORANT. 



A spring and fall migrant on the coast. Casual inland, where 



