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(see Macoun, '00, p. 62) that it breeds on the islands about Newfound- 

 land seems quite without foundation. The only specific record for 

 the Stormy Petrel in Labrador is that of Turner who obtained one in 

 the "middle of July, 1882," twenty miles up the Koksoak River, in 

 Ungava, and saw another seventy miles up that river, October 9, 1882. 

 Possibly these birds had been blown inland by a storm and become lost. 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieill.). 

 Leach's Pbtbel. 



Common summer resident in south. 



Bryant saw this species frequently off the southern coast but found 

 it breeding only on Gull Island near Romaine, and on a small island 

 between Mecattina and Bradore. Bigelow speaks of finding it com- 

 monly. He says: "We visited several islets where the turf was riddled 

 with their holes and the air reeked with their sharp musky odor." 

 North of Hamilton Inlet Bigelow says it is very rare. 



We saw none on the Labrador coast, although a petrel (possibly 

 of this species) was described to us, that flew aboard the vessel one 

 night in southern Labrador, and was captured but afterwards released. 

 Dr. Grenfell told us it breeds at Peter's Island near Henley Harbor. 



Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl). 

 Wilson's Petrel. 



Common summer visitor. 



Apparently this species does not often reach the offshore waters 

 of Labrador in its summer wanderings from the southern hemisphere. 

 Coues and Brewster both observed it in fair numbers in the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence in July, but the former states that he saw none off the 

 Labrador coast. Turner records that he saw it off the "Atlantic 

 coast of Labrador,. . . .mostly in spring and fall," but it is not clear 

 that he distinguished carefully between this and Leach's Petrel. No 

 other observers report it. On Battle Island, we found the wings of a 

 Wilson's Petrel, August 1st, but saw no living birds. 



Sula bassana (Linn). 



Gannet. 



Uncommon summer resident, locally, on southern coast. 

 Formerly the Gannet was a common bird on the southern coast of 



