. Birds of New York. Birds. BIRDS OF XEW YORK 165 southern seas, Avhcre it nests during the antarctic summer. It thus repre- sents with us better than any other species the reverse of normal migration. Mr Butcher's dates are from June i to vScptcmbcr 14. Sometimes it appears in great numbers at Rockaway, Fire Island inlet and Gardiners bay, during June, July and Au- gust. A specimen from Lock- port, X. Y., October 1875, i^ reported by Davison, Auk, vol- ume I, page 294; and David Bruce had a specimen from Orleans county, N. Y., taken in November 1882. This is the common Storm\- petrel, or Moth
. Birds of New York. Birds. BIRDS OF XEW YORK 165 southern seas, Avhcre it nests during the antarctic summer. It thus repre- sents with us better than any other species the reverse of normal migration. Mr Butcher's dates are from June i to vScptcmbcr 14. Sometimes it appears in great numbers at Rockaway, Fire Island inlet and Gardiners bay, during June, July and Au- gust. A specimen from Lock- port, X. Y., October 1875, i^ reported by Davison, Auk, vol- ume I, page 294; and David Bruce had a specimen from Orleans county, N. Y., taken in November 1882. This is the common Storm\- petrel, or Mother Carey's chicken, of our sailors, which is so often seen coursing back and forth about the shii) waiting for scraps of food to be thro^^â n Wilson putrel. Oceanites oceanic us (KuhlJ From Andubon, Birds of America, i nal. si^c Order STEGAXOPODES Totipalmatc Birds Order Pelccaniformcs, Sharpc's Hand-List Feet completely webbed, the hind toe being large, low down and partly lateral, connected with the inner toe In* a full web; bill horny, usually hooked at the tip and furnished with a nail; gape very capacious; nostrils ver\- small or rudimentary; a gular pouch; tongue small and knoblike; palate decidedly desmognathous; basipterygoids wanting; sternvim short and broad; upper ann bones very long. Birds of this order number about sevent}- species included in six fami- lies, the darters, or snake birds (Anhingidae) not being found in New York,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eaton, Elon Howard, 1866-1934. Albany, University of the State of New York
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