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till' tV'iUlKTS may be disturbed. There is likewise iu> exiicise<l white on the upjier tail-coverts or 

 tiase of the tail ; the I'oriiier are, however, very abniiitly white beneath thi' surface, but the latter is 

 white only at the extreme base ; and the outer rectrices have a considerable amount ol' white on 

 their inner webs. The lower iiarts are ahuost entirely white, there beinj,' merely a few plumbeous 

 ine,L,'ular bars on the thinks. Tiie measurements are as fol- 

 jiiws : Winy, 1 1.80 inches (less than the averaj,'e of <K. }ur<i- 

 ^(^l as given by Dr. C'oues) ; tail, .^.TS, its j,'r!uluatiun, 2.40 ; 

 cnlmen, 1.22 ; depth of bill at base, .,55 ; tai'sus, 1.40 ; 

 middle toe (without claw), l..')5. In view of the dill'er- 

 cnces of coloration, much more j^raduiited tail, and smaller 

 dimensions — and especially in view of its different habi- 

 tat, no specimens of (K, hirsituta having to our knowledge 

 liceii reported from any }iart of the I'acitic Ocean — the 

 specimen in (piestiou may be ivally distinct. Shouhl such 

 prove to be the case, the name lE. sandwichcnsis i.s pro- 

 posed as a suitalde designation.* 



Hardly anything is known of the liistory, hal)- 

 its. and di.stribiition of this rare sjn'cics. Its claini 

 to 1)0 countt'd into our fauna rosts only on accident, 

 and nothing has been ascertained in regard to either 

 the places or the jjeriods of its reproductive season. 

 It is a great waiulerer, or more {)r()l)aldy, under 

 the influeiu'cs of continued stovius, is ot'casionall}- 

 driven to regions quite remoti' from its luitural 



habitat. Its usual abode is said by Degland ;ind (ierbe to be the Indian (\'ean ; aiul 

 its occurrence in Europe and elsewhere is consiilered by them as only occasional 

 and accidental. 



Tlie museum of I5oulogiu^-sur-Mer possesses a specimen procured in that neighbor- 

 In hmI; aiul it has been elsewhere (d)served on the coasts of France and England. 

 \'arreU records an instance where oiu' was taken on a heath at youthacre, \orfidk, by 

 a lidv. It was alive when captured, aiul greatly exhausted, but had strength enough 

 to bite violently the hand of its eaptiu", who thereupon killed it. This occurred in 

 till' spring of 1S50. The specimen is in the private collection of ^Ir. Xewcome, of 

 llockwold Hall, Hrandon. A specimen of this bird from the Indian Ocean is in (lui 

 Museum at Leyden. Yarrell states that one has also been taken in Australia; and 

 one obtained in the South Seas was in ^Ir. l>ullock's museum. A sjiecimen brought 

 from llayti by John Heariu' is now in the Uritish ^ruseum. 



-Mr. (ieorge N. Lawrence, in Vol. IV. '• I'acitic Railroad Heports," cites this sj)ecies 

 under tlu' name of the "Tropical Fulmar,'' and nu-ntions its distributi(Mi on mir coast 

 as extending from New Viuk southward to Florida, referring to two siu'cinu'iis, tme 

 taken otf the coa.st of Florida, the other on that of New York. The first of these was 

 given to Mr. Lawrenct' by Dr. V. H. Stillwell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who had obtained 

 it ill Fhu'ida in the winter of 1S4(5. It had been wounded, and was tioating in the salt 

 higoon, opposite Imlian Itiver Inlet, on the east coast of I'loriila, two hundred and 

 torty miles from St. John Kiver. The other spei-imen had l)een shot in tho bay at 

 <.}u()(pi(<. Long Island, after a severe storm, in July, ISrA*. No other specimens are 

 on record. 



' III pnttorn of coloration, this siM-ciiiicii agrees exactly with an example of lE. Ojoki, but 1ms tho 

 li:irk, scapuliirs, rump, and tail decidedly loss ashy. 



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