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  southern 
  seas, 
  where 
  it 
  nests 
  during 
  the 
  antarctic 
  summer. 
  It 
  thus 
  repre- 
  

   sents 
  with 
  us 
  better 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  species 
  the 
  reverse 
  of 
  normal 
  migration. 
  

   Mr 
  Butcher's 
  dates 
  are 
  from 
  June 
  i 
  to 
  September 
  14. 
  Sometimes 
  it 
  appears 
  

   in 
  great 
  numbers 
  at 
  Rockawa}', 
  

   Fire 
  Island 
  inlet 
  and 
  Gardiners 
  

   bay, 
  during 
  June, 
  July 
  and 
  Au- 
  

   gust. 
  A 
  specimen 
  from 
  Lock- 
  

   port, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  October 
  1875, 
  is 
  

   reported 
  by 
  Davison, 
  Auk, 
  vol- 
  

   ume 
  I, 
  page 
  294; 
  and 
  David 
  

   Bruce 
  had 
  a 
  specimen 
  from 
  

   Orleans 
  county, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  taken 
  in 
  

   November 
  1882. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  common 
  Stormy 
  

   petrel, 
  or 
  Mother 
  Carey's 
  chicken, 
  

   of 
  our 
  sailors, 
  which 
  is 
  so 
  often 
  

   seen 
  coursing 
  back 
  and 
  forth 
  

   about 
  the 
  ship 
  waiting 
  for 
  

   scraps 
  of 
  food 
  to 
  be 
  thrown 
  

  

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  OVerOOarQ. 
  Audubon, 
  Birds 
  of 
  America. 
  J 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  Order 
  STEGANOPODES 
  

  

  Totipalmate 
  Birds 
  

   Order 
  Pelecaniformes, 
  Sharpe's 
  Hand-List 
  

  

  Feet 
  completely 
  webbed, 
  the 
  hind 
  toe 
  being 
  large, 
  low 
  down 
  and 
  partly 
  

   lateral, 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  inner 
  toe 
  by 
  a 
  full 
  web 
  ; 
  bill 
  horny, 
  usually 
  hooked 
  

   at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  furnished 
  with 
  a 
  nail 
  ; 
  gape 
  very 
  capacious 
  ; 
  nostrils 
  very 
  small 
  

   or 
  rudimentary 
  ; 
  a 
  gular 
  pouch 
  ; 
  tongue 
  small 
  and 
  knoblike 
  ; 
  palate 
  decidedly 
  

   desmognathous 
  ; 
  basipterygoids 
  wanting; 
  sternum 
  short 
  and 
  broad; 
  upper 
  

   arm 
  bones 
  very 
  long. 
  

  

  Birds 
  of 
  this 
  order 
  number 
  about 
  seventy 
  species 
  included 
  in 
  six 
  fami- 
  

   lies, 
  the 
  darters, 
  or 
  snake 
  birds 
  (Anhingidae) 
  not 
  being 
  found 
  in 
  New 
  York, 
  

  

  