NESTS AND EGG* OF 



group; Lore they breed in March, depositing the single white egg in holes In 



isistiiiL' of a few dry twigs. Both sexes incubate and when 



r on the nest the birds do not offer any resistance. The egg of this species is of 



a clear chalky white color, oval in shape and measures from 1.90 to 2.32 long by !.?,<) 



to 1.45 broad. 



93. BLACK-VENTED SHEARWATER. Puflimm <iaria (Forst.) Geog. Dist 



nth ward, 



species Is supposed to occur along the whole Pacific coast as far north at 

 Little seems to be known regarding its general habits; the eggs are 

 inble those of other members of this family. 



94. SOOTY SHEARWATER. Puffin UN xtrirklandi Ridgw. Geog. Dist. 

 i Atlantic, on the American coast south to the Carolinas. 



is a Petrel that escaped the observations of the earlier ornithologists, Wil- 

 son. Audubon and Nuttall. Recent explorers, however, have discovered that it is 

 a common bird off our Atlantic coast, and that far north it breeds in immense 

 colonies on the islands of the sea. It burrows in the ground to the extent of several 

 its a single white egg. The average size of the egg is 2.58x1.78. 



95. DARK-BODIED SHEARWATER. Puffin us f/metw (Gmel.) Geog. Dist. 

 South Pacific, north to Lower California. 



The Dark-bodied Shearwater is known to breed on Cornwallis and Chatham 

 Islands, east of New Zealand, in the South Pacific Ocean, and also on other islands 

 lyincr farther south. The bird burrows in the peaty ground a horizontal hole three 

 or four feet deep and turning slightly to the right or left. At the end of this burrow 

 a rude nest is formed of twigs and dry leaves, where one white egg is laid; size 2.25 

 It is stated that the old birds of this species roost along the shores of the 

 Islands during the night and the noise they make is said to be "something absolutely 

 frightful." 



96. SLENDER-BILLED SHEARWATER. Puffin u* ti-nuiroxtris (Temm.) 

 Dist. North Pacific; from Sitka to Kotzebue Sound on the American co,, 



rding to Dr. Stejnegcr the Slender-billed Shearwater Is rather scarce on the 



lands, but he says: "I feel convinced that a few breed the]. 

 a flock on the 22d of August, 1882, at the entrance of Lissonkovaja Buchta, southern 



; !. leaving the whale carcass, upon which they were sittii 



our approach." A specimen was obtained on Copper Island in June, 1883. A sum 

 ater was serun-d ly Mr. Dall from an Eskimo. The bird was killed 

 In K< .iin.l. thus extending the range of the species through iJering Si rait 



The eggs are at the present time unknown. 



97. BLACK-TAILED SHEARWATER. Puflinii* rinrrni* (Gmel.) Geog 

 Dist. lentfil off the coast of California. 



Thla peculiar M-hing the fulmars in many characters, is ai- 



alifornia. Its home is on the Islands of the South Pacific. 

 Nothing is known of Its eggs. 



* CINEREOUS SHEARWATER. Puffin H* knfilii (Boie.) Geog. Dist. East- 



Me. 



