176 FULMARS, SHEARWATERS, PETRELS 



nest, and, when exposed by the removal of protecting rock, they made 

 no attempt to fly but scuttled away into another hole or under the 

 vegetation. 



The ALLIED SHEARWATER (92.1. Puffinus assimilis) of Southern seas, has 

 been found once on Sable Island, N. S. (Dwight, Pr. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, 

 1897,69). 



95. Puffinus griseus (Gmel.}. SOOTY SHEARWATER. Ads. Upper- 

 parts, wings and tail dark, sooty, brownish black; underparts somewhat 

 grayer; bill blackish. L., 17'00; W., 12'00; Tar, 2'10; B., 1'65. 



Range. Oceans of S. Hemisphere; occurs in summer on the Pacific 

 "coast from s. Alaska to L. Calif, and on Atlantic Coast from Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence to S. C. ; accidental in Ala. ; breeds in the s. Pacific off New Zealand. 



Long Island, rare in summer. 



Nest, in burrows. Egg, 1, white, 2*60 x 1*60. Date, February and March 

 (Buller). 



"Its flight and habits seem to be identical with those of major, but 

 its uniform dark coloring gives it a very different appearance. At a 

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



98. ^Estrelata hasitata (Kuhl). BLACK-CAPPED PETREL. Ads. 

 Upperparts and wings fuscous; forehead and nape whitish; upper tail- 

 coverts white; tail fuscous, basally white, central feathers longest; below 

 white. W., 11-50; T., 5'25; B., 1-15. 



Range. Warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean. Bred formerly in the 

 Lesser Antilles, straying to Haiti, Fla., Va., N. Y. (Ulster Co., Oneida Lake 

 and L. L), N. H., Ky., Ohio, and Ont., and also to England and France; 

 probably now extinct. 



The SCALED PETREL (99. JEstrelata scalaris] is known from one indivi- 

 dual which had wandered to western New York. Its true home has not been 

 discovered, but is doubtless in the Antarctic Ocean. (Brewster, Auk, III, 

 1886, 300.) Its identity with JE. gularis has been suggested. 



PEALE'S PETREL (JEstrelata gularis}, an Antarctic species, has been 

 taken once in Bermuda (Bradlee, Auk, 1906, 217). 



BULWER'S PETREL (101. Bulweria bulweri) inhabits the north temperate 

 portions of the Eastern Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, and is of accidental 

 occurrence in Greenland. 



104. Thalassidroma pelagica (Linn.). STORM PETREL.. Ads. Upper- 

 parts, wings arid tail sooty black; underparts slightly browner; upper tail- 

 coverts white, the longer ones broadly tipped with black; under tail-coverts 

 mixed with whitish; bill and feet black. L., 5'50; W M 4*80; T., 2'50; B., "45. 



Range. The more easterly portions of the Atlantic Ocean s. to the 

 Mediterranean and w. coast of Africa. Said to occur at times on the New- 

 foundland Banks and off the coast of N. S. Breeds on islands off Great 

 Britain. 



Nest, of a tew bits of grasses and feathers in a burrow in the ground or 

 beneath a rock. Egg, 1, dull white, sometimes with a wreath of minute or 

 obscure markings at the larger end, I'lO x '80. Date, Hebrides, G. B., 

 May 29. 



This is the common Petrel of the east side of the Atlantic. It 

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

 ain, but is only a transient visitant in our waters. It resembles the two 

 following species in habits. 



