FAM. LVII. FULMARS, SHFAEWATERS, ETC. 317 



Sooty Shearwater 



Length, 11^; wing, 8 (7i— 8|); tail, 3| ; tarsus, 1| ; culmen, IJ. 

 Warmer parts of the Atlantic, north casually to Long Island. The Manx 

 Shearwater (90. Pufflnus pnffinus) is much like the last, but larger. 

 Length, 14 ; wing, 8^9J ; tail, 4 ; tarsus, If ; culmen. If. A European 

 species, accidental on the 

 North American coast. 



5. Sooty Shearwater 



(94. Pufflnus stricJc- 

 landi). — A sooty -black 

 shearwater with the 

 \inder parts somewhat 

 grayer and the bill 

 blackish. (Black Hag- 

 don.) 



Length, 17 ; wing, llf 

 (llJ-12); tail, 4; tarsus, 



2J ; culmen, IJ. Atlantic Ocean ; breeding south of the equator, and 

 migrating north in summer to South Carolina and northward. 



6. Black-capped Petrel (98. ^strelata hasitdta). — A rare, 

 southern, blackish-brown-backed petrel, with all lower parts 

 and base of tail white. The otherwise white head is dis- 

 tinctly capped with black and marked with a bar of black 



back of the eye. 



The tip of tail and 

 the primaries are 

 darker than the 

 back. The you righsis 

 the black of the 

 head more or less 

 connected and con- 

 tinuous down the 

 back neck. 



Blaok-oapped Petrel 



Length, 15 ; wing, 



llj; tail, 5; tarsus, 1|; culmen. If. Warmer portions of the Atlantic 



Ocean, straying to different sections from Florida to Ontario. 



7. Stormy Petrel (104. ProcelliXria iwldgka). — A very small, 

 square-tailed, sooty-black petrel, with white upper tail coverts. 



