1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 257 
now in the National Museum, also another taken near the Navy 
Yard Bridge, on June 5, 1891, by Wm. Bayley. Wm. Palmer 
has two; one was shot from a bunch of three or four on August 
29, 1893, the other was captured alive in a house on Capitol 
Hill a few days later” (Richmond). 
Oceanites oceanicus (109). Wilson’s Petrel. 
I have been greatly interested in watching these birds as they 
flew round the vessel, on several sea trips I have made. Under 
date of August 20, 1884, I find the following: ‘Cleared the 
capes last night at 11.30 P. M., and this morning we have the 
petrels, which stay with us all day, the Maryland shore being 
in sight. One is partly albino, having a white breast, belly 
and back, separated from the usual white by a sooty line.” 
The only inland record I can find is “one taken many years 
ago and presented to the Smithsonian” (A. C., 110). “This 
was shot on the Potomac River about 1859” (Richmond). 
Order STEGANOPODES—TotipaLMATE SWIMMERS. 
Family Sutip“2—Gannets. 
Sula bassana (117). Gannet 
Occasionally taken on the Chesapeake, three specimens so 
recorded have been presented to the Maryland Academy of 
Sciences, where two of them are at present, the other, now in the 
Johns Hopkins University, taken many years ago at Chester- 
town, was presented by Mr. Colin Stam(sen?) through Mr. J.J. 
Thomsen. On April 21, 1894, one was taken in Rock Hall Cove 
and forwarded alive to the Academy by Dr. A. P. Sharp. Mr. 
John Murdock presented a mounted specimen on June 6, 1892, 
referring to which he writes me: “ The bird I presented to the 
Maryland Academy of Sciences was killed a short time previ- 
ously in the lower part of the Chesapeake Bay, near Mobjack 
Bay ; I have never seen them above that point ; generally they 
go in pairs,” 
