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of the islands ; it is sometimes found on the Lower Yukon 

 and has been seen in Behring Strait and about St. Lawrence 

 Island ; two specimens hive been taken in Kotzebue Sound, so 

 its range reaches the arctic circle. {Nelson.) A winter resident 

 along both coasts of Vancouver Island, but more abundant on 

 the west coast ; has been taken in Victoria harbour. {Fannin.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One, taken in Gardiner Channel, Gulf of Georgia, in i885,~by 

 Dr. G. M. Dawson. 



•106. Leach's Petrel. 



Oceanodroma leucorhoa (ymii^j^.) Stejn. 1885. 



Constantly observed near the coast of Greenland to Lat. 64° or 

 65° N. ; most common about the entrance to Gotthaab Fjord. 

 (Arct. Man.) Found southward along the whole Atlantic coast, 

 and in all parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Reeks says they 

 probably breed around the coast of Newfoundland ; and Bishop 

 reports that they breed in small numbers on Great Bird Rock, 

 Bryon Island, and possibly others of the Magdalen Islands. 



On the Pacific coast from California to some distance north 

 of the Aleutian Islands. {Nelson.) According to Dall they breed 

 in considerable numbers on the southern Aleutian Islands. 

 Fannin took one specimen off Beacon Hill, Victoria, Vancouver 

 island. November, 1893, 



Breeding Notes. — Breeds on the Magdalen Islands in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence and on many of the islands off the Labrador 

 coast. It also breeds on the Alaskan coast. I have a series of 

 eggs taken on Sannak Island, Alaska, June 30th, 1894. {Rain£.) 

 I never saw this bird until the summer of 1897, when I found a 

 few pairs breeding on Bryon Island, the northernmost of the 

 Magdalen Islands. Here I found three nests ; no doubt there 

 were many more, but as the bird is nocturnal in many of its 

 habits the nest is not easy to find. On the 24th June, a beautiful 

 day, hearing that this bird was to be met with on the island, I 

 walked toward the east point, and after looking about for some 

 time at length found a burrow under a stunted spruce bush about 

 fifty feet from the edge of the cliff. I detected the birds by the 

 musky odour in the neighbourhood of the bush. This burrow 

 extended horizontally about two feet under the tree. After 



