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being blown. It is usually but very faintly spotted about the large end and ofte: 

 wholly unmarked. I have but one egg which is well marked and it has a wreatl 

 about the large end composed of irregular dots of light reddish-brown. The eggs o 

 this Petrel average considerably smaller than those of Leache's. The measurement 

 of seven eggs arc as follows, the extreme sizes being given first: 1.26X.89, 1.22x.8! 

 1.20X.89, 1.20X.87, 1.19x.86, 1.13x.89 and l.llx.87 inches." 



108. 1. SOCOBBO PETBEL. Otrninnlrmnn *wo/vw;ixi.v Townsend. Geoj 

 Dist. Coasts and Islands of Lower California. 



This is a new species of petrel just added to the avifauna of North America. . 

 specimen of the egg of this bird is in the extensive collection of Mr. Crandall. ] 

 was collected by Mr. Anthony, the well-known ornithologist. Mr. Crandall says 

 t of this species is pure white with a ring of pale lavender or pinkish specfc 

 around the large end, elliptical ovate in shape, and measures 1.22x.85. It wa 

 collected by Mr. A. W. Anthony on Coronado Island, Lower California, July lOtl 

 1896, and was laid on the bare ground at the end of a burrow about three feet long. 



109. WILSON'S PETBEL. Oceanites occanijus (Kuhl.) Geog. Dist. Atlant 

 and Southern Oceans. 



Wilson's Stormy Petrel is one of the best known and commonest of the smalle 

 petrels. It is to be met with nearly everywhere over the entire watery surface < 



the world far north in il 

 icy regions of the Arctic set 

 and south to the sunny isl< 

 of Southern oceans. Its gei 

 eral habits are the same 5 

 those of Leach's Petrel. D 

 J. H. Kidder found it on Ke 

 guelen Island, southeast < 

 Africa. He had previous 

 seen them at the sea coast o 

 the Cape of Good Hope, an 

 on December 14, saw them 01 

 1)>- day food ing on the oil 

 matter floating away from (1 

 carcass of a sea-elephant. Tl 

 birds, he says, fmiupnt tl 

 rocky parts of hillsides, an 

 flitting about liko swallow 

 minute Insects. Dr. Kidder remarks that ho never sun 

 I the egg, but learned from Rev. Mr. Eaton, who found one on Thumb Moui 

 tain ix-rrniber 8, that this species nested under large rocks not far from n 

 The egg found was white. The species was supposed to nest among and under t) 

 , habitually, at considerable elevation above the sea. 



110. WHITE-BELLIED PETBEL. Cinnntlrumn vrntlnria Well.) Geo 

 Dist Tropical oceans; accidental on the coast of Florida. 



A single instance of this petrel having been taken on the coast of Flori 1 ; >-i 

 :t to a place in the North American avifauna. We know nothing regardir 

 Jta nidification. 



109. WILSON'S STORMY PETREL. 



