256 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [1895 



some distance below Washington, September 8, 1858 " (A. C., 

 109). 



At Cobb's Island, Va., from May 25 to 29, 1875, they were 

 found in flocks of 20 or 30, as they do not breed until the 

 last of June (H. B. Bailey, Auk, i, 28), and just before dusk 

 on May 20, 1891, four were seen there (Fisher). 



"Common at Smith's Island, Va., where we got three on 

 May 15, 1894, but they had not begun to breed by the 26th 

 when we left " (C. W. Richmond). 



Order TUBINARES TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS. 



Family PROCELLAEIID.E Shearwaters and Petrels. 



Puffinus major (89). Greater Shearwater. 



"Atlantic coast generally. A rare straggler to the New 

 Jersey coast " (Birds E. Pa. and N. J., 49). 



Puffinus auduboni (92). Audubon's Shearwater. 



Atlantic coast from New Jersey southward, breeds in the 

 Bermudas and Bahamas (A. O. U.). 



Puffinus stricklandi (94). Sooty Shearwater. 



North Atlantic, south to the Carolinas, breeding far north. 

 No doubt all three occur off our ocean front, but as there are 

 no observers there, their presence with that of other of our 

 ocean birds has not been recorded. 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa (106). Leach's Petrel. 



On June 11, 1895, while fishing on Little Gull Bank, about 

 three miles out from Ocean City, a pair of these birds came and 

 circled round our boat for a few minutes. I have also noted 

 them further out, off our Maryland coast, on several occasions 

 during the month of August, when they followed the vessel 

 generally in company with Wilson's Petrel. 



Occasionally heavy easterly gales drive them inland ; at 

 Washington, D. C., "one of several shot in August, 1842, is 



