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4:2. Puffimis Strickland!. SOOTY SHEARWATER. Abundant 

 off the coast in summer. 



This and the preceding species have hitherto usually been re- 

 garded as winter visitors, but intelligent fishermen and gunners 

 assure me that no species of Shearwater is seen by them off the 

 Massachusetts coast in winter. 



43. Oceanodroma leucorhoa. LEACH'S PETREL. Common 

 summer visitant along the coast. Breeds on the coast of Maine. 



44. Oceailites oceanicus. WILSON'S PETREL. Common off 

 the coast in summer. 



[45.] P^lagodroma marina. WHITE-FACED PETREL. Acci- 

 dental. The only record is off the coast, Sept. 2, 1885 (Ridgway, 

 Auk, II, 1885, 386). 



[46.] Sula sula. BOOBY. Rare or accidental. Thus far there 

 is only one recent record Cape Cod, Sept. 17, 1878 (Brewer ; 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, 1879, 191). But there is an earlier 

 and perhaps doubtful record, namely, Essex County, " September, 

 rare" (Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., I, 1856, 221). 



47. Sula liiissana. GANNET. A not uncommon migrant in 

 early spring and late fall. Not a winter visitant, as usually stated, 

 according to the testimony of fishermen and gunners. 



48. Phalacrocorax carbo. CORMORANT. Rare in spring and 

 fall, and probably rare in winter. (See Brewster, Auk, II, 112.) 

 Winters from the coast of Maine northward, straggling at the 

 same season southward to New Jersey, and even South Carolina. 

 Is supposed to have formerly bred from Massachusetts northward. 

 A recent Rhode Island record, of interest in this connection, is 

 Newport, March 27 and April 10, 1884 (Jencks, Random Notes on 

 Nat. Hist., II, 1885, 34). 



49. Phalacrocorax diloph us. DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 

 Common spring and fall migrant. 



[50.] Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. AMERICAN WHITE PELI- 

 CAN. Now accidental ; formerly common (Allen, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, I, 1876, 60). The only recent correct record of its 

 capture appears to be North Scituate, Oct. 6, 1876 (Purdie, Bull. 

 1886.] 



