538 APPENDIX. 



Appendix 



The following species, chiefly accidental visitors, 

 should be included as birds of our section. 



EARED GREBE. 



About the .size of Horned Grebe, but bill smaller. 

 Conspicuous cinnamon ear tufts in adult. Young and 

 winter plumage, scarcely different. Western U. 8. ; casual 

 in Indiana. 



SHORT-BILLED GULL. 



Differs from Ring-billed Gull in being darker above; 

 no band on bill, which is green, with tip yellow, and 

 shorter. Difficult to distinguish in field in young stages. 



PINTADO PETREL. 



Large, 15; head, wings, tip of tail and mottlings on 

 back, black; otherwise, including patch on wing, white. 

 Southern Oceans, accidental off coast of Me. 



ALLIED SHEARWATER. 



Smaller than Audubon Shearwater, with black of 

 head not extending below eye. Australian seas; acci- 

 dental on Sable Island, N. S. 



