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NE8T8 AND EGOS OF 



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102, Cape Pigeon (From Brebm.) 



103. LEAST PETKEL. Halocyptena mjicrosoma Coues. Geog. Dist. — Coast of 

 Lower California. 



A set of one egg of this queer little petrel is in Mr. Crandall's collection; it is 

 pure) white in ground color, with a ring of minute black specks around one end and 

 a few scattered over the other; it is short elliptical oval in form, and measures . 

 l.OOx.72. It was collected by Mr. A. W. Anthony on Sah Benito Island, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, July 26th, 1896. The egg was laid on bare rock under a loose slab of stone. 



104. STOBMY PETREL. Procettaria pelaffica lAnh. Geog. Dist— Atlantic 

 Ocean; on the American side from the Newfoundland Banks northward. West coast 

 of Africa and coast of Europe, ■ ■ ' ' - - 



The "Mother Carey's Chicken" of the sailors; Common in various portions of the' 

 Northern Atlantic; rarely found near land except when breedih'g or during -severe 

 storms. It is not known to breed on the American coast, but it does in various por- 

 tions of the Atlantic coast of Europe. In the Mediterranean it breeds in abundance. 

 "ests commonly on nearly all the islands on the coast of Scotland— th? ^Hebrides, 

 Shetland, Orkneys and Faroes; laying is begun in the latter part of Jupe. Dr. 

 Couec says: "This is the rarest of the three little black whlte-rum^ed 'Mother 

 Carey's chickens' of our Atla^ntic Coast, easily distinguished by its short legs, and 

 square tail; Leach's, the most numerous, is also short-iegged, but larger and fo 'i-. 

 tailed; Wilson's is intermediate, with square tail, but very long, stilt-like legs, flat 

 clav/s, and a yellow spot on the webs." The single egg is deposited in holes in high 

 cliffs or in burrows made by the birds under boulders lying on the ground. The 



