Identifier: annualreport6331909newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Stormy 110 trcl. Tlinlass iil runia i)ilaKii--a (Linnaeus).Pn)m .\iKlubon, Birds of America BIRDS OF NEW YORK 163 Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vicillot) Leach Petrel Pro cell aria leucorhoa Vicillot. Nouv. Diet. dHist. Nat. 1817. 25:425Thalassidromaleachi DcKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 291, fig. 295Oceanodroma leucorhoa A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 106 occaiiodroina, Gr. fiKtwos, ocean, and 8/)o/xos, running; IcncorJioa, Gr.Afuxds, white and o/j/jos, rump Description. Sooty blackish, browner below; wing coverts grayishbrown; tipper tail coverts white, the shorter ones mixed with brownish;bill and feet black; iris brown; tail jorked. Length 7,5-8.9 inches; extent 17-18; wing 6-6.5; ^^^^ 3-S~4 forked.j^-.g; tarsus .9-1; middle toe and claw i; bill .67. The Leach or common Forked-tail petrel inhabits the seas of theholarctic region in general, breeding from the Hebrides and the coast olMaine northward, and migrating southward in winter as far as Virginia and
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LcHch potrol. Oc-c-anodroma Icucurhoa (VieiUot). From Auduhun. Birds of America, 3 nat. size 164 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM California. It has been noted as a rare or rather uncommon migrant on cm-coast, from the days of Giraud to the present time, and sometimes wandersinland, especially up the Hudson river. This is the only petrel which breedson the coast of the United States. It lays a single white egg in a burrowm the ground, and the birds come and go at night, the male usually takingcharge during the day. The nestling is covered with a very fluffy, sootydown. The following are the records of New York specimens: Quogue, L. I. 1850. Butcher, Auk, 5: 132; see also Lye. Nat. Hist. Ann., 5: 220 Catskill, Greene co., N. Y. Oct. 19, 1874. Day, Forest and Stream, 3: 180 Lansingburg, N. Y. Nov. 13, 1879. (William Gibson). Thomas Heimstreet Hudson river above Troy. Oct. 1879. Park, N. O. C. BuL, 5: 190 Lansingburg, N. Y. Nov. 3. 1886. (William Gibson). Austin F. Parks Fire Island Light, L. L May

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