The Zoologist — October, 1869. 1849 



Notes on the Zoology of Newfoimdland. 

 By Henry Reeks, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continued from S. S. 1759.) 



Letter 4. — Ornithology — (concluded.) 



Procellariid.e. 



Fulmar Petrel, Procellaria glacialis, Zenu.— Apparently common 

 in its migrations, but I could not learn that it bred on the island. 



Leach's Petrel, Thalassidroma leachi (Te/ww.)— Tolerably common, 

 and probably breeds on some of the islands in company with the 

 following species. 



Wilsons Stormy Petrel, T. Wilsoni, 5o».— Appeared to be more 

 common than 71 leachi, and was said to breed on several islands along 

 the coast of Newfoundland, especially at Port au Port; it is very pro- 

 bable, however, that some of these reported breeding places refer to 

 the following species. 



Stormy Petrel or Mother Carey's Chicken, T. pelagica [Linn.) — 

 A common summer migrant, remaining probably until the appearance 

 of the drift ice. Breeds on many of the islands round the coast. 



Greater Shearwater, Puffinis major {Faber.)—l have never observed 

 this species so far north as Cow Head, but it appeared tolerably com- 

 mon in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the west coast of Newfound- 

 land. 



Sooty Shearwater, P. fuliginosus, Strick.—Commow on the banlis 

 of Newfoundland, but rather rare in the Straits of Labrador. 



Manx Shearwater, P. anglorum, /Fo^/. — Tolerably common, 

 especially about the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The shearwaters are 

 rarely, if ever, seen on the islands near the coast of Newfoundland. 

 They are to be seen at all seasons in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which 

 has given rise to some curious ideas among the sailors, viz., that these 

 birds never breed, or that during the breeding season the females 

 retire to some unknown islands for that purpose. Their breeding 

 stations are equally unknown to the settlers, but they are probably on 

 some of the surf-bound islands on the " banks"— once the favourite 

 resort of the great auk. 



LARID.E. 



Pomarine Skua, Slercorarius pomarinus, r<?/M/rt.— Common, espe- 

 cially in the fall of the year. 



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