176 FULMARS, SHEARWATERS, PETRELS 
nest, and, when exposed by the removal of protecting rock, they made 
no attempt to fly but scuttled away into another hole or under the 
vegetation. s 
The Allied Shearwater {92.1. Puffinus assimilis) of Southern seas, has 
been found once on Sable Island, N. S. (Dwight, Pr. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, 
1897, 69). 
95. Puffinus griseus {Gmel.). Sooty Shearwater. Ads. — Upper- 
parts, wings and tail dark, sooty, brownish black; underparts somewhat 
grayer; bill blackish. L., 17*00; W., 12*00; Tar, 2T0; B., 1*65. 
Range. — Oceans of S. Hemisphere; occurs in summer on the Pacific 
coast from s. Alaska to L. Calif, and on Atlantic Coast from Gulf of St. 
Lawrence to S. C. ; accidental in Ala. ; breeds in the s. Pacific off New Zealand. 
Long Island, rare in summer. 
Nest, in burrows. Egg, 1, white, 2’60 x 1*60. Date, February and March 
(Buller). 
“Its flight and habits seem to be identical with those of major , but 
its uniform dark coloring gives it a very different appearance. At a 
distance it looks as black as a Crow’ 7 (Brewster). 
98. iEstrelata hasitata ( Kuhl ). Black-capped Petrel. Ads . — 
Upperparts and wings fuscous; forehead and nape whitish; upper tail- 
coverts white; tail fuscous, basally white, central feathers longest; below 
white. W., 11*50; T., 5-25; B., 1T5. 
Range. — Warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean. Bred formerly in the 
Lesser Antilles, straying to Haiti, Fla., Va., N. Y. (Ulster Co., Oneida Lake 
and L. I.), N. H., Ky., Ohio, and Ont., and also to England and France; 
probably now extinct. 
The Scaled Petrel {99. AZstrelata scalaris ) is known from one indivi- 
dual which had wandered to western New York. Its true home has not been 
discovered, but is doubtless in the Antarctic Ocean. (Brewster, Auk, III, 
1886, 300.) Its identity with JU. gularis has been suggested. 
Peale’s Petrel {AEstrelata gularis), an Antarctic species, has been 
taken once in Bermuda (Bradlee, Auk, 1906, 217). 
Btjlwer’s Petrel {101. Rulweria bulweri) inhabits the north temperate 
portions of the Eastern Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, and is of accidental 
occurrence in Greenland. 
104. Thalassidroma pelagiea {Linn.). Storm Petrel. Ads. — Upper- 
parts, wings and tail sooty black; underparts slightly browner; upper tail- 
coverts white, the longer ones broadly tipped with black; under tail-coverts 
mixed with whitish; bill and feet black. L., 5*50; W., 4*80; T., 2*50; B., *45. 
Range. — The more easterly portions of the Atlantic Ocean s. to the 
Mediterranean and w. coast of Africa. Said to occur at times on the New- 
foundland Banks and off the coast of N. S. Breeds on islands off Great 
Britain. 
Nest, of a few bits of grasses and feathers in a burrow in the ground or 
beneath a rock. Egg, 1, dull white, sometimes with a wreath of minute or 
obscure markings at the larger end, 1*10 x *80. Date, Hebrides, G. B., 
May 29. 
This is the common Petrel of the east side of the Atlantic. It 
nests in numbers on the small islands along the coast of Great Brit- 
ain, but is only a transient visitant in our waters. It resembles the two 
following species in habits. 
