SHEARWATERS 



(95) Puffinus griseus 



(Gmel.) (LcU., dark). 



SOOTY SHEARWATER. Sooty, 

 brownish-black all over, grayer be- 

 low. L., 17.00; W., 12.00; T., 4.00; 



B., r.75- 



Range — Occurs in summer on both 

 coasts of N. A. Probably breeds in 

 the South Pacific. 



(98) BLACK-CAPPED PETREL 

 (,Estrelata hasitdta). (Kuhl.) Prob- 

 ably now extinct. Formerly of the 

 Lesser Antilles, straying accidentally 

 to some of our Atlantic states. 



(99) SCALED PETREL (.E- 

 strelata scalaris) Brewster. An Ant- 

 arctic species known from a specimen 

 taken in Livingston Co., N. Y. 



(loi) BULWER'S PETREL 

 (Bulweria bulweri) . Temperate North 

 Pacific and North Atlantic (European 

 side). Accidental in Greenland. 



Bahamas, wander along the South Atlantic coast in 

 summer as far north as New Jersey. Their single, dull- 

 surfaced, white eggs are laid in holes in the ground or among 

 crevices of rocks, during March; grass or small sticks usually 

 line the nests. 



SOOTY SHEARWATERS occur in large numbers off 

 our coast in summer, but are not quite as numerous as 

 Greater Shearwaters. The habits of the two species, while 

 with us, are identical. They often congregate about 

 fishing boats to get scraps or fish-livers that are thrown over- 

 board for them. Their continual squawking and fighting 

 for these prizes has caused them to be known by fishermen 



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