256 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [1895 
some distance below Washington, September 8, 1858” (A. C., 
109). 
At Cobb’s Island, Va., from May 25 to 29, 1875, they were 
found in flocks of 20 or 30, as they do not breed until the 
last of June (H. B. Bailey, Auk, i, 28), and just before dusk 
on May 20, 1891, four were seen there (Fisher). 
“Common at Smith’s Island, Va., where we got three on 
May 15, 1894, but they had not begun to breed by the 26th 
when we left”’ (C, W. Richmond). 
Order TUBINARES—Tvspe-nosEp SWIMMERS. 
Family PRocELLARIID#—Shearwaters and Petrels. 
Puffinus major (89). Greater Shearwater. 
“Atlantic coast generally. A rare straggler to the New 
Jersey coast” (Birds E. Pa. and N. J., 49). 
Puffinus auduboni (92). Audubon’s Shearwater. 
Atlantic coast from New Jersey southward, breeds in the 
Bermudas and Bahamas (A. O. U.). 
Puffinus stricklandi (94). Sooty Shearwater. 
North Atlantic, south to the Carolinas, breeding far north, 
No doubt all three occur off our ocean front, but as there are 
no observers there, their presence with that of other of our 
ocean birds has not been recorded. 
Oceanodroma leucorhoa (106). Leach’s Petrel. 
On June 11, 1895, while fishing on Little Gull Bank, about 
three miles out from Ocean City, a pair of these birds came and 
circled round our boat for a few minutes. I have also noted 
them further out, off our Maryland coast, on several occasions 
during the month of August, when they followed the vessel 
generally in company with Wilson’s Petrel. 
Occasionally heavy easterly gales drive them inland 3 at 
Washington, D. C., “one of several shot in August, 1842, is 
