DESCRIPTIVE LIST 



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One was picked up dead at Beaufort on July 28, 1910, by Stephen C. Brunei, 

 of Raleigh, who now has the skin in his possession. 



FIG. 22. AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER. 



30. Puffinus griseus (Gmel). SOOTY SHEARWATER. 



Description: Ads. Upperparts, wings and tail dark, sooty, brownish black; underparts 

 somewhat grayer; bill blackish. L., 17.00; W., 12.00; Tar., 2.10; B., 1.65. (Chap., Birds of 

 E. N. A.} 



Range. Oceans of Southern Hemisphere to Alaska and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



Range in North Carolina. Coastal region, off shore in summer. 



FIG. 23. SOOTY SHEARWATER. 



One was taken at Fort Macon by Coues, May 21, 1870. Pearson found two in 

 the possession of Augustine Finer, a taxidermist at Moiehead City, in 1899, and 

 was told that they had been taken near Cape Lookout two years previous. A third 

 record is that made by H. H. Brimley at Beaufort, June, 1892. 



Genus Oceanites (K. and B.) 

 31. Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl). WILSON'S PETREL. 



Description: Ads. Upperparts, wings and tail sooty black; underparts somewhat lighter; 

 under tail-coverts mixed with whitish, longer upper tail-coverts white, shorter ones marked 

 with sooty black; wing-coverts grayish, margined with whitish; bill and feet black, toe-webs 

 mostly yellow. L., 7.00; W., 5.90; T., 2.80; B., .50. (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) 



