22 BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS 



Berkshire: One instance, probably this species. Bristol County : One 

 inland record. Cambridge : Accidental visitant. One instance, October. 

 Cohasset: "Common in September and October." Essex County: 

 Mentioned. Ipswich: Several instances. Springfield: "Very rare visitor." 

 Several instances. Wellesley : "Accidental." 



23. Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl.). WILSON'S PETREL: 

 A common visitant off the coast in summer. 



June 17 to first week of September. 



Bristol County: "Uncommon summer visitant along the coast." 

 Cohasset: "Summer; rather common." Essex County: "Common." 

 Ipswich: " Seen rarely off the beach." Nantucket : "Common." 



Note : Pelagodroma marina (Lath.). WHITE-FACED PETREL. 



One was captured on September 2, 1885, on board the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission Steamer, "Albatross" in Lat. 40 34' 18" N., 66 09' W., which is 

 nearly two hundred miles off the coast, and the specimen can hardly there- 

 fore be considered as a Massachusetts bird, though included in Dr. 

 J. A. Allen's 1886 list. 1 



24. Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly). GREATER SHEARWATER. 



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

 early winter. Accidental inland. 



(June) August 16 to December 31. 



Wellesley: "Accidental inland." August 10, 1887, correct date, not 

 November. 



25. Puffinus borealis Cory. CORY'S SHEARWATER. 



A not uncommon late summer and autumn visitant off the coast. 

 An unusual. flight of these birds occurred in the autumn of 1886. 2 



August 2 to the first \)f November. 



Nantucket: " Fairly common some years." Bristol County: " Occurred 

 abundantly in Buzzards Bay during fall of 1886." 



Note: Puffinus puffinus (Briinn.). MANX SHEARWATER. 



Included in Putnam's List, 1856, on the strength of a skull in the 

 Essex Institute Collection taken from a bird killed in Salem Harbor, 

 August 13, 1855. (p. 225.) As Prof. Putnam cannot at this time remember 

 anything in regard to the record, and as the skull is not to be found, the 

 species is not here enumerated. 



1 Ridgway ; Auk, Vol. II, No. 4, Oct., 1885, pp. 386, 387. 



2 Baird ; Auk, Vol. IV, No. i, Jan., 1887, pp. 71, 72. 



