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several of the islands along the coast of Newfoundland, especially 

 at Port au Port. {Reeks.) Observed everywhere between Annis- 

 quam and the Gut of Canso and they were common and generally 

 distributed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. {Brewster.) One picked 

 up dead in the spring of 1897 or 1898. Mr. D. J. Grant writing 

 to Mr. J. H. Willmot, Beaumauris, Muskoka says ; " The stormy 

 petrel was found by some lads on Gull lake. It was brought to 

 the late Mr. Burke. It was recorded by me, in error from Lake 

 Muskoka in The Auk, Vol. XVIII, page 35. (/. H. Fleming.) 



■Order STEGANOPODES. Totipalmate Swimmers. 



Family IX. PHAETHONTID^. Tropic Birds. 



XXXVIII. PHAETHON Linn^us. 1758. 



112. Yellow-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phaethon americanus Grant. 1897. 



Accidental in Nova Scotia. One individual of this species was 

 taken after a storm at Shubenacadie. {Dow7is.) 



113. Red-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phaethon cethereus Linn. 1758. 



One specimen taken on the Newfoundland banks. {Chamber- 

 lain.) 



Family X. SULID.ffi. Gannets. 



XXXIX. SULA Brisson. 1760. 



117. Gannet. Solan Goose. 



Sula bassana (Linn.) Boie. 1822. 



Accidental and rare in Greenland. {Arct.Man.) From Green- 

 land south to New Brunswick and throughout the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence this species is common, breeding abundantly on the 

 southern coast of Labrador and on the Nova Scotia coast and on 

 Bird rocks in the gulf. Accidental in Ontario. McIIwraith 

 mentions the occurrence of two individuals. 



