Puffinus borealis at Gardiner’s Bay, N. Y. — Stragglers, from the large 
flight of Cory’s Shearwaters, which occurred in September and October, 
1886, off Gay Head,* Mass., seem to have reached Long Island, N. Y. I 
recently obtained a specimen taken by Mr. W. W. Worthington, in Gar¬ 
diner’s Bay, Long Island. 
This is, I believe, the first recorded specimen from New York.— Arthur 
P. Chadbourne, Cambridge , Mass. 
* Baird, Auk, Vol. IV, 1887, p. 71. 
Auk, V. April 1888. p. Z^X 
Bird Notes from Long Island, N. Y. 
William Dutoher. 
4. Puffinus borealis. Cory’s Shearwater.— Ever since the discovery 
of this species I have felt sure that it eventually would be added to the 
list of Long Island birds. When I read in ‘The Auk’ for January, 1887, 
the note by the late Professor Baird, recording the occurrence of Cory’s 
Shearwater in numbers between Point Judith (Rhode Island) and Vine¬ 
yard Sound, I was certain that the time was near at hand. It was with 
great pleasure, therefore, that I received from Messrs. Lucas and Buck, 
two specimens, a male and female, which, with four others, weie shot oft 
Amagansett, Suffolk Co., about October 18, 1887. 
Auk, V, April, 1888. p.173 
Bd». Obs. at Little and GreatGnll - p- 
landa, N.Y. Aug. '88 B. H. Dutch. r» 
- Puffinus borealis. Cory’s Shearwater.— But two individuals of 
this species were noted, one of which was secured. The Shearwaters 
seemed always to keep in company with the Jaegers, and to be engaged in 
the same occupation,—that of robbing the Terns. In fact their habits all 
through were much the same as those of the Jaegers, although I cannot 
say positively that I ever saw one alight on the surface of the water. Speak¬ 
ing of the Jaegers and Shearwaters collectively, Chas. B. Field said that 
they stayed while the bluefish were there, but as he had not before dis¬ 
tinguished one species from• the other, he could not be certain whether 
only one staved, or whether both remained. It is probable, however, that 
both remain all summer. The stomach of the specimen secured con- 
tained only fish bones. 
Auk, VI. April, 1889. p. 
Notes Concerning Certain Birds of Long Island, N) Y.— Puffinus 
borealis. Mr. Andrew Chichester shot two birds (£ and ?) of this spe¬ 
cies on the ocean some distance off Fire Island Inlet, on Oct. 4, 1902, and 
sent them to me in the flesh. 
Will lam C.Braislin, 11. D., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
Auk, XXI, Apr., 190 p.2,97. 
Cory’s Shearwater in abundance off Long Island.— On October 2, 
1911, I shot two Shearwaters off the coast of East Hampton, Long Island’. 
I took them to be Cory’s Shearwater (Puffinus borealis ) but to make sure 1 
brought them to Mr. W. DeW. Miller, Assistant Curator of Ornithology at 
the American Museum of Natural History who confirmed my identification. 
There were any number of them, together with some Greater Shearwaters 
{Puffinus grains). The difference between the two species was apparent 
at quite a distance, the commoner bird appearing darker.— William Tod 
Helmuth, Jr., New York City. 
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