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off his finger-nails, and demoralized his hands and arms to such an 

 extent that he would gladly stay at home and blow his eggs. 



166. Oceanites oceanica. Wilson's Petrel. Occurs on the fishing 

 grounds, but does not breed. 



167. Procellaria glacialis. Fulmer. Occurs on the fishing grounds 

 in autumn. 



168. Nectris fuliginosus. Sooty Shearwater. This species and the 

 two succeeding are given by Boardman, but were not noted by myself. 



169. Puffinus major. Greater Shearwater. Haglin. 



170. Puffinus anglorum. Mank's Shearwater. Black Haglin. 



LAKIDJE. 



171. Stercorarius pomatorhinus. Pomarine Jaeger. Common in 

 autumn on the fishing grounds. 



172. Stercorarius parasiticus. Arctic Jaeger. Common fall visit- 

 ant; comes about the fishing boats to pick up bits of bait, and is so 

 tame that it is often killed with a gaff. 



173. Stercorarius cepphus. Buffon's Jaeger. " Marlin-spike Bird." 

 "Common in the Bay of Fundy in August" (Boardman). 



174. Larus glaucus. Burgomaster. Winter resident. 



175. Larus Hutchinsii. Hutchins' Gull. I have a fine specimen of 

 this rare gull, killed by Mr. Cheney's son in January, 1872. It corres- 

 ponds exactly with a specimen, in the cabinet of G. N. Lawrence, 

 Esq., that was shot on Long Island. 



176. Larus leucopterus. White-winged Gull. Noted by Dr. Brewer. 



177. Larus marinus. Great Black-backed Gull. Common winter 

 resident; used to breed with the Herring Gulls, but being of a wilder 

 nature it was the first to move in the direction of new and more 

 secure breeding grounds. 



178. Larus argentatus. Herring Gull. Very abundant and breeds 

 on almost all the islands, in every situation, from the open heath to 

 the ragged and precipitous cliff. On the Southern Head is a very 

 extensive nursery, and from the edge of the cliffs the eggs can be 

 counted by the hundred, all the way down, until they grow indistin- 

 guishable in the distance. But little effort is made to secure these 

 eggs, as of late years it has been rightly deemed too dangerous an 

 undertaking to descend the cliffs, even with the aid of a rope. I know 

 of at least one adventurous climber who met with a fearful death in 

 consequence of his temerity. The present inhabitants of the island 

 can remember when it was an easy thing to go out and collect four or 

 five hundred eggs in an afternoon; but, alas ! those times are no more 

 and unless something is done, and that soon, to prevent the promis- 

 cuous destruction of these useful birds, gulls' egging at Grand Menan 



