\ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



'&g'ng down I came to the nest — a mass of withered grass and 

 its of bark and wood— in which was one egg, incubation just 

 Dmmencing. The bird was on the nest, and when handled 

 iected an oily fluid, very rank smelling. After measuring and 

 lentifying the bird I let it go. The other two nests I found were 

 E the same character and under the same conditions, and some 

 (Stance from the edge of the cliff. {Rev. C.J. Young:) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Our egg collection consists of three specimens. Two of these 

 ere procured on the Magdalen Islands, on July loth, 1897. The 

 lird specimen was taken at the end of a burrow in the ground 

 [1 Green Island, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, June 28th,. 1894, 

 y Mr. P. A. Thomas. 



XXXVII. OCEANITES Keyseeling & Blasius. 1840. 



)9. Wilson's Petrel. 



Oceaniies oceamcus (KvHi) Light. 1854. 



Traced as far north as Resolution Island on our outward voyage ; 

 a the homeward, first seen about one hundred miles south of 

 ape Farewell. (Kumelin.) Common, and said to breed, on 

 iveral of the islands along the coast of Newfoundland, especi- 

 ly at Port au Port. {Reeks.) Observed everywhere between 

 nnisquam and the Gut of Canso and they were common and 

 ;nerally distributed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. {Brewster.) 



Order STEGANOPODES. Totipalmate Swimmers. 



Family IX. PHAETHONTID.^. Tropic Birds. 



XXXVIII. PHAETHON Linn^us. 1758. 



2. Yellow-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phcuthon americcmus Grant. 1897. 



Accidental in Nova Scotia. One individual of this species was 

 ken after a storm at Shubenacadie. {Downs.) 



3. Red-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phdethon athereus Linn. 1758. 



One specimen taken on the Newfoundland Banks. {Chamber- 

 ing 



