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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  water 
  appeared 
  in 
  enormous 
  numbers 
  off 
  Point 
  Judith, 
  R. 
  I., 
  Buzzard's 
  

   bay 
  and 
  Vineyard 
  sound, 
  Mass., 
  feeding 
  on 
  the 
  herring 
  which 
  occurred 
  

   there 
  in 
  unusual 
  abundance 
  [see 
  Baird, 
  Auk. 
  4:71]. 
  The 
  following 
  are 
  our 
  

   New 
  York 
  records: 
  

  

  Gardiners 
  bav, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Sept.-Oct. 
  1886. 
  (Worthington). 
  Chadbourne, 
  Auk, 
  5: 
  202 
  

  

  Amagansett, 
  L. 
  I. 
  About 
  Oct. 
  18, 
  1887. 
  Dutcher, 
  Auk, 
  5: 
  175 
  

  

  Ram 
  island 
  shoals, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Oct. 
  20, 
  1887. 
  c? 
  9 
  Dutcher 
  Collection 
  

  

  Little 
  GuUIsland. 
  Aug. 
  6 
  -16,1888. 
  (2). 
  Dutcher, 
  Auk, 
  6: 
  128 
  

  

  Montauk, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Nov. 
  29, 
  1889. 
  (i). 
  (Scott). 
  Dutcher, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Notes 
  

  

  Off 
  Fire 
  island 
  inlet, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Oct. 
  4, 
  1902. 
  (2). 
  Braislin, 
  Auk, 
  21: 
  287 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  an 
  uncommon 
  summer 
  visitant 
  off 
  Long 
  Island 
  but 
  its 
  breeding 
  

   grounds, 
  probably 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  seas, 
  are 
  unknown. 
  By 
  the 
  early 
  writers 
  

   it 
  was 
  confused 
  with 
  the 
  Greater 
  shearwater, 
  but, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  know, 
  

   no 
  specimens 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Giraud 
  and 
  Lawrence 
  collections. 
  

   According 
  to 
  Baird 
  these 
  shearwaters, 
  as 
  observed 
  off 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  Cape 
  

   Cod, 
  in 
  1886, 
  occurred 
  in 
  flocks 
  of 
  from 
  fifty 
  to 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  hundred 
  and 
  

   were 
  "generally 
  found 
  resting 
  quietly 
  on 
  the 
  water 
  and 
  feeding 
  while 
  

   swimming, 
  on 
  the 
  herrings 
  that 
  were 
  so 
  abundant 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity. 
  They 
  

   were 
  very 
  tame." 
  According 
  to 
  Dutcher 
  the 
  specimens 
  seen 
  in 
  Gardiners 
  

   bay 
  were 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  jaegers 
  and 
  like 
  them 
  were 
  engaged 
  in 
  the 
  

   occupation 
  of 
  robbing 
  the 
  terns. 
  He 
  did 
  not 
  see 
  them 
  alight 
  on 
  the 
  water. 
  

  

  Puffinus 
  gravis 
  (O'Reilly) 
  

   Greater 
  Shearwater 
  

  

  Procellaria 
  gravis 
  O'Reilly. 
  Voyage 
  to 
  Greenland. 
  1818. 
  p. 
  140, 
  pi. 
  12, 
  

  

  fig. 
  I 
  

   Puffinus 
  cinereus 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  287, 
  fig. 
  297, 
  208 
  

   Puffinus 
  major 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  89 
  

  

  gra'vis, 
  Lat., 
  hea^y, 
  great 
  

  

  Description. 
  Upper 
  parts 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  feathers 
  edged 
  with 
  ashy; 
  

   white 
  below, 
  with 
  brownish 
  patches 
  on 
  the 
  flanks; 
  under 
  tail 
  coverts 
  ashy 
  

   gray; 
  bill 
  blackish. 
  

  

  Length 
  18-20 
  inches; 
  extent 
  42-45; 
  wing 
  13; 
  tail 
  5.75, 
  graduated 
  for 
  

   one 
  inch; 
  bill 
  2; 
  depth 
  of 
  bill 
  .65; 
  tarsus 
  2.4; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  2.9. 
  

  

  