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BIRDS OF DURHAM AND VICINITY. 
Order TUBINARES. 
Fulmarus glacialis. Fulmar. 86. 
Fulmars do not appear to be common much south of Newfoundland, 
but in winter more or less are to be seen off our coast. In coloration 
they resemble Herring Gulls, but their " double-barreled " nostrils 
prevent them from being thought gulls on close examination. The 
Fulmar averages nineteen inches long. 
Fulmarus glacialis minor. Lesser Fulmar. 86a. 
This is a sub-species of the last, to which it is similar in color and 
occurrence, but from which it is distinguished by its lesser size. Its 
average length is eighteen inches. 
PuflBnus stricklandi. Sooty Shearwater. 94. 
A summer visitor off the coast from the southern hemisphere. 
Aestrelata hasitata. Black-capped Petrel. 98. 
Air. Henry W. Osgood of Pittsfield writes me that a Black-capped 
Petrel was found in an exhausted condition in the town of Chichester, 
one mile south of Pittsfield, August 31, 1S95. It was mounted by 
Mr. Osgood and is now in the collection of Dr. Brewer of Cambridge, 
Mass. It was evidently brought by a cyclone which visited that region 
a day or two previous to its capture. 
Order STEGANOPODES. 
Phalacrocorax carbo. Cormorant. 119. 
This species occurs similarly to the Double-crested Cormorant, but 
I do not know of a capture or an observation of it within the limits of 
this review. 
Order ANSERES. 
Mareca penelope. Widgeon. 136. 
This is the Widgeon of Europe, which has been known to straggle to 
the shores of this country quite a good many times. The adult male 
has its neck and the sides of its head chestnut, and it lacks the heavy 
green patch behind the eye, which characterizes the male of the Amer- 
ican Widgeon or Baldpate. 
