A LIST OF BERMUDIAN BIRDS SEEN DURING 

 JULY AND AUGUST, 1903.1 



HAROLD BOWDlTCir. 



The following list comprises those birds which fell under iny 

 personal observation on or near the Bermuda Islands between 

 the sixth of July and the twenty-second of AuL;ust, 11)03, ^i""*^' 

 time of my stay at the Bermuda Biological Station. The names 

 of such birds as are included in the Check-list of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union are preceded by their respective check-list 

 numbers, and every effort has been made to bring the scientific 

 names down to date. I wish here to express my thanks to Prof. 

 Edward L. Mark, Director of the Biological Station ; Mr. John 

 T. Nichols ; Mr. Owen Bryant ; Mr. Goodwin Gosling, of Ham- 

 ilton ; and the Messrs. Louis L. Mowbray and R. S. McCallan, 

 of St. George, for their valuable aid in furthering my observa- 



70. Stcnia Jiimindo (?) Linn. Common Tern. — Terns were 

 seen three times off the north shore, in each case a single indi- 

 vidual, but not once was I near enough to make a positi\'e iden- 

 tification. They were in all probability .S. Jiirundo. 



89. Piiffimis gravis (O'Reilly). Greater Shearwater.— A. 

 Shearwater-like Petrel (family Procellariid^) was seen in sight 

 of Bermuda, July sixth ; it was probably a Greater Shearwater, 

 although certain identification of this bird and of the two others 

 seen on the same day would not be possible without specimens. 



IC9. Oceanites oceanicus {}) (Kuhl). Wilson's Petrel— A 

 "Mother Gary's Chicken " was seen from the S. S. " Gladisfcn " 

 on the " Challenger " bank, about twelve miles southwest of 

 Gibbs' Hill, on the first of August. Identification was impos- 

 sible, but the bird was probably a Wilson's Petrel. Merriam 

 ('84, p. 284) reports finding a Leach's Petrel, dead, on the 



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