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Greater Shearwater {Fuffiiiits grmis). A pelagic species, found on the 



Atlantic Ocean from Cape Horn to Greenland. Its breeding place is unknown. 



It appears off our coasts in early June and is irregularly common until 

 November. 



Audubon's Shearwater (Piiffinus J licniiinicri). A southern species, breed- 

 ing in the Bahamas and Bermudas, and rarely wandering northward to Long 

 Island (Dutcher, Auk, V, 1888, p. 173). 



Sooty Shearwater (PuMiius griscus). Known from the North Atlantic 

 southward to South Carolina. It is found off our coasts associated with the 

 Greater Shearwater, but is much less common. 



The Stormy Petrel {ProccUaria pelagica ) is included by Lawrence in his 

 "Catalogue of Birds Observed on New York Island"' etc., but the record is not 

 accompanied by data, nor is there a specimen of the l)ird from this vicinity in 

 the Lawrence Collection. 



Leach's Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa). Breeds from Maine north- 

 ward, and in the winter ranges southward to Virginia. It is rather uncommon 

 in this vicinity. 



Wilson's Petrel {Oceanites oceanicus). Nests in the islands of the 

 Southern Seas (Kerguelen Island) in January and February and migrates 

 northward after the breeding season, reaching the waters of our coasts in May 

 and remaining until late September. It sometimes enters the Lower Bay of 

 New York harbor in numbers. 



Fig. 3. Petrel. 



Order STEGAXOPODES. Torii'ALM.vrE Swi.m.mers. 

 Family SULID.t. Gaxnets. 



Booby {Stila leucogaster) . Coasts and islands of tropical and sub-tropical 

 America, north of Georgia. Accidental on Moriches Bay, L. I. (Dutcher, Auk, 

 X, 1893, p. 2;o). 



Gannet (S'n/a bassana). A spring and fall migrant, usually occurring 

 well off shore. 



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