Range.--Southern Seas; north on Pacific coast to Washington.
[Ill.u.s.tration: 94.]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Bill of 94 1/2 Size.]
=94. Sooty Shearwater= (_Puffinus fuliginosus_). L. 17. _Ads._ Sooty gray, lighter below.
Range.--"Atlantic Ocean, breeding in the southern hemisphere; a summer visitor off our coast, from South Carolina northward." (A.O.U.)
[Ill.u.s.tration: 95.]
=95. Dark-bodied Shearwater= (_Puffinus griseus_). L. 17. _Ads._ Above dusky black or brownish, paler below; under wing coverts _white_ and dusky; bill black.
Range.--South Pacific; north in summer on the American coast to California.
=96.1. Wedge-tailed Shearwater= (_Puffinus cuneatus_). L. 17. T. 5.4, pointed. _Ads._ Above brown; below white; sides of neck mottled with gray; middle tail feathers nearly 2. longer than lateral ones. (Cat.
B. M.)
Range.--"North Pacific Ocean, from the Hawaiian Islands north to the Bonin Group and Lower California." (A.O.U.)
Shearwaters
[Ill.u.s.tration: 88.]
=88. Cory Shearwater= (_Puffinus borealis_). L. 21. _Ads._ Above grayish brown; below, including under wing coverts and _under tail coverts, white_.
Range.--North Atlantic; recorded only off the coast from Ma.s.sachusetts to Long Island.
[Ill.u.s.tration: 89.]
=89. Greater Shearwater= (_Puffinus gravis_). L. 20. _Ads._ Above grayish brown or blackish; tips of longer upper tail coverts white; below white; _middle of belly and under tail coverts ashy gray_.
Range.--"Atlantic Ocean, from Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope north to Arctic Circle." (A.O.U.)
[Ill.u.s.tration: 91.]
=91. Pink-footed Shearwater= (_Puffinus creatopus_). L. 19.5. _Ads._ Above dusky gray or brown; below white; sides and lower belly with grayish; longer under tail coverts dusky brown; feet, flesh-color; bill yellowish.
Range.--Pacific Ocean north on the American coast in summer and fall to middle California.
[Ill.u.s.tration: 92.]
=92. Audubon Shearwater= (_Puffinus lherminieri_). L. 12. _Ads._ Above black or brownish black; below white; _under tail coverts sooty_.
Range.--Middle Atlantic; breeds in West Indies and Bahamas; wanders north to Long Island.
[Ill.u.s.tration: 93.]
=93. Black-vented Shearwater= (_Puffinus opisthomelas_). L. 15.
_Ads._ Above dusky _black_; below white; sides of breast grayish; under tail coverts dusky brown; bill black.
Range.--"Pacific Ocean, chiefly southward; coast of Lower California north to Santa Cruz, Cal." (A.O.U.)
=93.1. Townsend Shearwater= (_Puffinus auricularis_). Similar to No.
93, but bill and feet smaller, B. 1.2; above darker, nearly black; black of head extending below eye. (Townsend.)
Range.--Pacific Ocean (Clarion Island, Lower California).
[Ill.u.s.tration: 96.]
=96. Slender-billed Shearwater= (_Puffinus tenuirostris_). L. 13., bill slender 1.2 _Ads._ "Above dark sooty slate; beneath deep sooty gray, paler on throat where sometimes inclining to whitish." (Ridgw.)
Range.--North Pacific, from j.a.pan and Kotzebue Sound south on the American coast to middle California.
Petrels
[Ill.u.s.tration: 98.]
=98. Black-capped Petrel= (_?strelata hasitata_). L. 15. _Ads._ Above sooty brown; back of neck and upper tail coverts _white_; base of tail _white_.
Range.--Tropical Atlantic; irregular in United States (Florida, Virginia, New York, Kentucky, Vermont, and Ontario.)
[Ill.u.s.tration: 103.]
=103. Least Petrel= (_Halocyptena microsoma_). L. 5.7. _Ads._ Sooty blackish brown, lighter below.
Range.--"Coast of Lower California south to Panama." (A.O.U.)
[Ill.u.s.tration: 105.]
=105. Forked-tailed Petrel= (_Oceanodroma furcata_). L. 8. 7.
_Ads._ Tail forked; bluish gray, wings darker; a blackish s.p.a.ce about eye.
Range.--North Pacific; breeds in Aleutian Islands; recorded north to Bering Strait; winters south to California.
=105.1. Kaeding Petrel= (_Oceanodroma kaedingi_). W. 6. _Ads._ Similar to _O. leucorrhoa_, but much smaller with much less deeply forked tail. (Anthony.)
Range.--Pacific Ocean; (Socorro Islands, Lower California.)
[Ill.u.s.tration: 108.]
=108. Ashy Petrel= (_Oceanodroma h.o.m.ochroa_). L. 8.5. _Ads._ No white on rump; tail forked; sooty black above, browner below; wing coverts grayish.
Range.--"Coast of California; breeds on the Santa Barbara and Farallone Islands." (A.O.U.)
[Ill.u.s.tration: 104.]