CHECK LIST OF NEW YORK BIRDS 219 



45 1 99] Scaled petrel^ 



Aestrelata scalaris Brewst. 



46 (106) Leach's petrel 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieill.) 



47 (109) Wilson's petrel 



Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl) 



Order Steganopodes Totipalmate swimmers 

 Family PHAETHONTIDAE IVopic 6ir(?« 



48 (112) Yellow-billed tropic bird^ 



Phaethon americanus Grant 



1 The single specimen taken in Livingston co. in 1880 is unique, as.it has not been taken 

 elsewhere. See Bui. Nutt. orn. club, 6 : 91-97; Auk, 11 : 389-93, 



2 This tropical form has once been taken at Knowlesville, Orleans co. See Bui. Nutt. orn. club., 

 5:63. See also Short's Birds of western New York. Also Langille's, Our birds in their haunts, 

 p. 615. One other state record. See Maynard's Birds of eastern North America, 1881, p. 474 



