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Bays) northward, on many suitable islands, as far as southern Green- 

 land (probably to 65° North). In Iceland (Vestmanneyjan) and on 

 various islands around Great Britain (St. Kilda, the Blaskets, Outer 

 Hebrides, Flannan Islands, etc.). Northern and eastern portions of 

 the Pacific Ocean. From the Kurile Islands north to the Commander 

 Islands (Copper Island). Eastward throughout the Aleutian chain 

 (Attu, Kiska, and Amchitka Islands, etc.). Southward along the 

 coast of southern Alaska, at least as far as Forrester Island. The 

 breeding birds of the southern portion of the range, Washington, 

 Oregon, and California coasts, south to the Farallon Islands, have 

 been called headingi, but are now referred to hedli, both of which 

 are only subspecies of leucorhoa. Breeding grounds protected in 

 Alaska reservations. 



Range. — North Atlantic Ocean. South nearly, if not quite, to the 

 Equator. East to the Cape Verde Islands and the coast of Africa 

 (Sierra Leone and Liberia). West to the coast of Brazil (Cape 

 San Koque) and the Lesser Antilles (Barbados). North Pacific 

 Ocean. South to southern California (San Clemente Island), south 

 of the Equator near the Galapagos Islands (13° 20' South), and to 

 the Hawaiian Group (Midway Island). 



Spring migration. — ^Atlantic dates: Atlantic Ocean, 3° 15' South, 

 33° 40' West, April 19 ; Atlantic Ocean, 13° 16' North, 51° 34' West 

 (near Barbados), May 4; Bermuda, May 1; New York, Fire Island, 

 May 4 ; Nova Scotia, Pictou, May 15 ; Quebec, Godbout, May 21. 



Fall migration. — Atlantic dates : Quebec, Godbout, September 25 ; 

 Maine, Oxford County, October 21 ; Massachusetts, September 1 to 

 November 25; Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay, October 14; New 

 York, Long Island, October 22; New Jersey, Tinicum, December 

 18; Atlantic Ocean, 28° 36' North, 31° 45' West, September 9, and 

 10° 46' North, 24° 38' West, September 27. 



Casual records. — There are numerous inland records as far north 

 as northern New Hampshire (Lancaster, October 1, 1897), as far 

 west as eastern New York (Catskill, October 19, 1874), and as far 

 south as southern Virginia (Petersburg). Casual in western Europe 

 from Norway to Portugal and in the Mediterranean Sea. 



Egg afo^es.— Maine : Fifty records, June 8 to August 8. Southern 

 Alaska: Nine records, June 17 to July 15. Newfoundland: Four 

 records, June 20 to July 6. Saint Kilda: Four records, June 12 to 

 July 2. 



OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA KAEDINGI (Anthony). 



EAEDINO PETREL. 



HABITS. 



The bird which Mr. A. W. Anthony (1898<^) described under the 

 above name is now recognized as the smallest of two or three 



