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NE8T8 AND EGGS OF 



102. CAPK PIGEOH (From Brehm.) 



103. LEAST PETREL. IJalocyptcna inii-nitmniti Coues. Geog. Dist. Coast of 

 Lower California. 



t of one egg of this queer little petrel is in Mr. Crandall's collection; it is 



pure white in ground color, with a ring of minute black specks around one end and 



a few scattered over the other; it is short elliptical oval in form, and measures 



it was collected by Mr. A. W. Anthony on San Benito Island. Lower Tali- 



forn. th, 1896. The egg was laid on bare rock under a loose slab of stone. 



104. STORMY PETREL. I>n,ri-ll<irhi pefctyfett Linn. Geog. DietAtlantic 

 \iiicrican side from the Newfoundland Banks northward. West coast 

 ml roast of Eu i 



1 arey's Chicken" of the sailors. Common in various portions of the 



\ Hunt if : ran -ly found near land except when breeding or during severe 



storms. It is not known to breed on the American coast, hut it docs in various por- 



coast of Europe. In the Mediterranean it Im-cds in ahum: 



rommonly on nearly all the islands on the coast of Scotland the Hebrides, 



and Faroes; laying is begun in (lie latter part of June. Dr. 



says: "This is the rarest of the three little black whitp-n Mother 



MS' of our Atlantic Coast, easily distinguished by its short lops ami 



the most numerous, is also short-lopped, but larger and fo X- 



: Wilson's is interniPdiatp, with square tail, but very long, stilt-like legs, flat 



on the webs." The single epp is deposited in holes in high 



cliffs or in burrows madp by the birds under boulders lying on the ground. The 



