. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 54 NE8T8 AND EGOS OF. '^\< s^ 102, Cape Pigeon (From Brebm.) 103. LEAST PETKEL. Halocyptena mjicrosoma Coues. Geog. Dist.âCoast of Lower California. A set of one egg of this queer little petrel is in Mr. Crandall's collection; it is pure) white in ground color, with a ring of minute black specks around one end and a few scattered over the other; it is short elliptical oval in form, and measures . It was collected by Mr. A. W. Anthony on Sah Benito Island, Lower Cali- fornia, July 26th, 1896. The egg was laid on bare rock unde
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 54 NE8T8 AND EGOS OF. '^\< s^ 102, Cape Pigeon (From Brebm.) 103. LEAST PETKEL. Halocyptena mjicrosoma Coues. Geog. Dist.âCoast of Lower California. A set of one egg of this queer little petrel is in Mr. Crandall's collection; it is pure) white in ground color, with a ring of minute black specks around one end and a few scattered over the other; it is short elliptical oval in form, and measures . It was collected by Mr. A. W. Anthony on Sah Benito Island, Lower Cali- fornia, July 26th, 1896. The egg was laid on bare rock under a loose slab of stone. 104. STOBMY PETREL. Procettaria pelaffica lAnh. Geog. DistâAtlantic Ocean; on the American side from the Newfoundland Banks northward. West coast of Africa and coast of Europe, â â ' ' - - The "Mother Carey's Chicken" of the sailors; Common in various portions of the' Northern Atlantic; rarely found near land except when breedih'g or during-severe storms. It is not known to breed on the American coast, but it does in various por- tions of the Atlantic coast of Europe. In the Mediterranean it breeds in abundance. "ests commonly on nearly all the islands on the coast of Scotlandâth? ^Hebrides, Shetland, Orkneys and Faroes; laying is begun in the latter part of Jupe. Dr. Couec says: "This is the rarest of the three little black whlte-rum^ed 'Mother Carey's chickens' of our Atla^ntic Coast, easily distinguished by its short legs, and square tail; Leach's, the most numerous, is also short-iegged, but larger and fo 'i-. tailed; Wilson's is intermediate, with square tail, but very long, stilt-like legs, flat clav/s, and a yellow spot on the ; The single egg is deposited in holes in high cliffs or in burrows made by the birds under boulders lying on the ground. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these ill
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