BIRDS OF NEW YORK 



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southern seas, where it nests during the antarctic summer. It thus repre- 

 sents with us better than any other species the reverse of normal migration- 

 Mr Butcher's dates are from June i to September 14. Sometimes it appears 

 in great numbers at Rockaway, 

 Fire Island inlet and Gardiners 

 bay, during June, July and Au- 

 gust. A specimen from Lock- 

 port, N. Y., October 1875, i^ 

 reported by Davison, Auk, vol- 

 ume I, page 294; and David 

 Bruce had a specimen from 

 Orleans county, N. Y., taken in 

 November 1882. 



This is the common Stormy 

 petrel, or Mother Carey's chicken, 

 of our sailors, which is so often 

 seen coursing back and forth 

 about the ship waiting for 

 scraps of food to be thrown 



■I 1 Wilson petrel. Oceanites oceanic us (Kuhl). 



OVerOOara. Audubon, Birds of America. 1 nat. size 



From 



Order SXEGAXOPODES 



Totipalmate Birds 

 Order Pclecaniformes, Sharpe's Hand-List 



Feet completely webbed, the hind toe being large, low down and partly 

 lateral, connected with the inner toe by a full web ; bill horny, usually hooked 

 at the tip and furnished with a nail ; gape very capacious ; nostrils very small 

 or rudimentary ; a gular pouch ; tongue small and knoblike ; palate decidedly 

 desmognathous ; basipterygoids wanting; sternum short and broad; upper 

 arm bones very long. 



Birds of this order number about seventy species included in six fami- 

 lies, the darters, or snake birds (Anhingidae) not being found in New York, 



