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DISTRIBUTION. 



Breeding range. — ^Antarctic seas. Breeds in the South Orkney, 

 South Shetland, South Georgia, and Kerguelen Islands; also on 

 islands of Adelie Land ; probably also on Snares and Antipodes 

 Islands and on Victoria Land. 



Range. — ^Widely extended throughout southern oceans around the 

 world. North in the Atlantic Ocean to the Tropic of Capricorn 

 (Sao Paulo, Brazil) ; in the Pacific Ocean to about 5° South (Payta, 

 Peru), and occasionally farther north (16° North, Acapulco) ; and 

 in the Indian Ocean to the vicinity of Ceylon. South in Antarctic 

 seas to about 76° South. 



Casual records. — Accidental in Maine (Harpswell, Casco Bay, 

 September, 1876), off the California coast (opposite Monterey), in 

 Great Britain (Dublin, October 30, 1881, Bournemouth, 1894, and 

 Cardigan, Wales, October, 1879), and in France (Bercy) . There are 

 some other European records. 



Egg dates. — South Orkney Islands: Three records, December 4 

 and 5; one record ea-ch, April 12 and May 12. South Shetland 

 Islands : One record, December 14. Adelie Land : One record, De- 

 cember 2. 



CALONECTRIS KUHLII BOREALIS Cory. 

 COEY SHEARWATER. 



HABITS. 



The Chatham bars, dangerous, shifting sand shoals, guard the 

 entrance to a broad and placid bay at the elbow of Cape Cod which 

 is separated from the ocean by a narrow strip of beach many miles 

 long, known as Nauset Beach and made famous by Thoreau. Ex- 

 posed to the unbroken swell of the Atlantic Ocean these bars are 

 nearly always white with combing breakers and during easterly 

 storms are seething masses of foam and flying spray, beautiful to 

 look upon, but much dreaded by sailors, as they have proved to be 

 the graveyard of many a good ship. Only during the smoothest 

 weather do the fishermen dare to venture out across the bars to their 

 fishing grounds offshore. Many a time have I joined them on their 

 trips in their staunch catboats, picking our way safely among the 

 bars, leaving the gulls and terns behind us as the land faded in the 

 distance. When safely over the bars we could feel the gentle ground 

 swell of the ocean and begin to look for the gliding forms of the 

 shearwaters, the slender winged ocean wanderers. We were seldom 

 Jsappointed, for this is a famous' summer resort for TuUnares and 

 ttLe birthplace of the so called, species Pulsus loredliB. Here on 

 October 11, 1880 Mr. Charies B. Cory (1881) obtained the type sped- 

 men from which he described the species. 



