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26. Puffinus fuliginosus Strickland. Sooty Shearwater. 

 A common visitant to the coast in summer and autumn, prob- 

 ably rarely wintering. 



March. July 4 to September 3. 



Bristol County: " A few occurred in Buzzards Bay during fall of 1886." 

 Nantucket: Once noted. 



Note: Fulmarus glacialis CLinn.). Fulmar. 



Accidental, the only record (and this of a bird taken too far off the coast 

 to be enumerated as a. Massachusetts specimen) is as follows : " Early in 

 November last [1878] I saw a living specimen of this bir.d in the yard of 

 Mr. Geo. O. Welch, to whom it had been sent for mounting, and I subse- 

 .quently learned from Mr. Milner, Prof. Baird's assistant, that it had been 

 taken by Capt. Wm. Sweet of the fishing schooner, Grace C. Hadley, Oct. 

 28, 1878, by a cod-hook on the eastern part of George's Bank." ' This 

 specimen is now in the U. S. National Museum. 



27. Alca torda Linn. Razor-billed Auk. 



An irregular winter visitant along the coast, sometimes not un- 

 common. 



November i to April 15. 



Cohasset : "Common off shore in fall and winter." Nantucket: 

 " Scarce." 



28. Alle alle (Linn.). Little Auk. 



An irregular, but often not uncommon winter visitant off the 

 coast. Casual inland whither it is driven by storms. 



September. November 8 to May i. 



Amherst: " Belchertown ponds ; winter of 1872 many were blown in- 

 land." Bristol County : " One record at Attleboro.'' Brookline : " One 

 found dead about 1859 to '60." Cambridge: [Common in 1881. Forest 

 and Stream, Vol. VII, No. 14, p. 212]. Cohasset: " Rather rare in fall 

 and winter. Occasionally blown ashore in great numbers." Dedham : 

 "Large flocks driven inland in September, 1S72." Kssex County: "Win- 

 ter. Common in some, and rare in other winters." Ipswich: Common 

 in 1871. Forest and Stream, Vol. VII, No. 14, p. 212. Springfield: "Ac- 

 cidental winter visitor." Wellesley : Occasional after storms. 



Note: Uiiatr oile CLinn.). Murre. 



Said to be a rare winter visitor to the coast, but we believe all of the 

 Murre records given as U>'ia troile are referable to Uria lomvia, and after 

 examining a large series of specimens from the State we have yet to see 



1 Brewer; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. IV, No. r, Jan., 1879, P- 64. 



