SIIKAUU \ n-:i:> AM I-I.TKI s j 



lt flight, low over the water, in strong and swift, five or fix. rapid 

 wing-beat* In-ing followed by a abort sail. 



94. Pufllnua Strickland! /.V/././. S....TV SHEARWATER; BLACK 

 I-IKT purrs, wingw, and Uil ilrk, sooty, brownish black ; 

 uii.liT parta somewhat grayer; bill blackish. 1.., 17 .-, U . U.H. ; Tar.,* 10; 

 H , 11J5. 



/fan?*. As far as known, North Atlantic ; south on the American coaat 

 t<> South Carolina. 



l.i >iik' Island, uncommon in .summer. 

 ' ami ';/:/ unknown. 



"Its flight anil habits set-in to IK- identical with those of major, but 

 its uniform dark coloring LJIVC- it a very different appearance. At A 

 distance it looks as black as a Crow " (Brewster). 



The BLACK-CAPPED PETREL (98. .ibtrtlata hatitata) in a southern specie*, 



which has U-i-n found on l.omr Uluiul, in Florida, Wct Virginia, aint V, r 

 mont It \>eAn a (jfiicnil n''i-iiil.l:in.T to I'lijKnu* major, hut iit much smaller 

 and has the UJ|HT un>l uinl<:r tuil-co\-erte white. 



The - :tt ealarit) in known from one individual 



which had wandered to wesU-rn New York. It* true home has not been dis- 

 covered, but i* (lountlcsi* in tlic Antarctic Ocean. 



Iti I.WEK'* rKTithi. i/"/. /liilirtrin tmltnri) inlml.iu the eastern Atlantic 

 Ocean, includintf the cooaU of Europe and Africa, and is of accidental occur- 

 rence in (irrmlund. 



1O4. Procellaria pelagica Linn. STORMY PETRKL. Ad. Upper 



parts, win^s, ami tail sooty black ; under part slightly hr\\ncr; upper tail - 



white, the longer ones broadly tipped tritk black; under tail-coverto 



mix.-.l with whitish ; lull and Art black. L., 5'50; W.,4'80; T., 8-60; B., -45. 



Uamjt. 'Atlantic Ocean, south on the American side to the Newfound- 

 laii'l Banks, weat coast of Africa :m-l co^t f KurojM- " ( A. <>. I*.). 



Xttt, of a few bits of sticks and grasses in a burrow in the ^n>tind or be- 

 neath a rock. /.;/;/. one, -lull white, Hm< times with a wreath of minute or 

 obocuru marking at the larger en. I, 1-1" x -80. 



This i> tin- common Stormy IVtrrl of the east side of the Atlantic. 

 It nests in numbers on tin- small islands along the coast of Great 

 Britain, but is only a transient visitant in our waters. It resembles 

 the two following species in habits. 



106. Oceanodroma. Icucorhoa I ////.). I.KA. nV I'KTREU Ad. 



- parts, wini;s, ainl tail sooty l>r<>wn; under parts Klightly browner; 

 -\erts grayish bmwn; longer upjx-r tail-coverbi white, shorter onea 



mixel with sooty Imiwni-h : t-iil f-ri,.l. outer feathers more than -SO longer 

 than middle pair; bill and feet black. L.. s-oi; W., -20; T., 3-50; B^ . 



Jinny*." North Atlantic and N->rth I 'neiflc Oceans; south on th coart 

 of the t'niu-d States to Virginia and California; brvt-d* from Maine and the 

 tea northward on the cuanla uf the Atlantic " (A. O. U.). 



