STANDARD ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE REGIONAL REPORTS

Abbreviations used in placenames: In mostregions, place names given in THE italictype are counties. Other abbreviations: AUTUMN Cr Creek Ft. Fort M I G RATI ON Hwy Highway I Island or Isle Is. Islands or Isles AugustI-November 3o, I99Z Jct. Junction km kilometer(s) L. Lake mi mile(s) Mt. Mountain or Mount Mts. Mountains N.E National Forest Atlantic ProvincesRegion 55 Prairie ProvincesRegion 108 N.M. National Monument Bruce Mactavish RudolfEKoes and Peter Taylor N.P. National Park QuebecRegion NorthernGreat Plains Region 110 N.W.R. NationalWildlife Refuge YvesAubry and Richard Yank David O. Lambeth PP. Provincial Park Pen. Peninsula New EngiandRegion 62 SouthernGreat Plains Region 113 Walter G. Ellison Pt. Point (not Port) JosephA. Grzybowski R. River andNancy L. Martin TexasRegion 115 Ref. Refuge Hudson-DelawareRegion 68 GregW. Lasleyand Chuck Sexton Res. Reservoir(not Reservation) Robert O. Paxton, S.P. State Park WilliamJ. Boyle, Jr., Idaho-Western Montana 121 and David A. Cutler W.M.A. WildlifeManagement Area ThomasH. Rogers MiddleAtlantic Coast Region 75 MountainWest Region 123 Abbreviations used in the HenryT. Armistead HughE. Kingery names of birds: Am. American SouthernAtlantic Coast Region 79 SouthwestRegion 127 Summersgg: Com. Common :Gary H. Rosenbergand HarryE. LeGrand,Jr. DavidStejskal E. Eastern New : Sartor O. Williams III Eur. Europeanor Eurasian FloridaRegion/Fall 1991 83 andJohn E Hubbard Mt. Mountain Richard L.West and N. Northern Noel Wamer AlaskaRegion 133 S. Southern T. G. Tobish,Jr. and M.E. Isleib FloridaRegion/Fall 1992 W. Western Noel Wamer and BritishColumbia/Yukon Region 136 Richard L.West Chris Siddle Otherabbreviations and symbols referringto birds: OntarioRegion 87 Oregon/WashingtonRegion 139 Ron Ridout BillTweit and JeffGilligan ad. adult •mm. immature AppalachianRegion 91 MiddlePacific Coast Region 143 juv. juvenalor juvenile GeorgeA. Hall DavidG.Yee, Stephen F. Bailey, and Bruce E. Deuel sp. species WesternGreat LakesRegion 95 ? meansthat written details DarylD. Tessen SouthernPacific Coast Region 147 were submitted for a GuyMcCaskie sighting MiddlewesternPrairie Region * meansthat a specimen was KennethJ. Brock HawaiianIslands Region 152 collected RobertL. Pyle CentralSouthern Region 104 d' male GregD. Jackson WestIndies Region 154 5? female ReportsJ•omthisRegion will CBC Christmas Bird Count appearin thenext issue.

54 AmericanBirds, Spring 1993 waswell describedfrom Cow Bay,NS, Nov. broughtIZ Leach'sStorm-Petrels to the ATLANTICPROVINCES 8 (PM, BS,RF). Theseare among the very entranceof the harbor in Halifax, NS, Nov. z few well-substantiated records for the (BMy,FL) andone to ShediacBridge, NB, REGION Region. onNov. I (ST).Truly late for the Region was Bruce Mactavish FivePied-billed Grebes during September aninjured Leach's picked up Nov. Zl at Kille- andOctober at St.John's, NF, wasan above- grets,NF (fideWM).The 5o-1oopairs that averagecount for thissurprisingly regular nestat MachiasSeal I., NB, left the colony provincialvagrant (m.obs.). The saltwater thelast week of October(RM). The highest The Regionexperienced rather uneventful coveoff LongPd., G.M.I., NB, is a good number of Wilson's Storm-Petrels seen on weatherthroughout the period.Birding location for Red-neckedGrebes, with two as severallate-summer trips off s.e.G.M.I., activities continue to increase. The level of earlyas Aug. 24, IO Sept. 8, anda peakof 9o NB, wasIOO, Aug. z3 (ST). Farther out to sea bird-findingskill is risingthroughout the Nov. IO (ST). Other impressivecounts of in the Gulf of Maine, IZOOWilson's Storm- Regionsbirders. New knowledge of where, thisspecies were 25 at Cap Bimet,NB, Oct. Petrelswere seen Aug. z6 from the ferry when, and how to look for rarities the 29 (ST), 50 at Escuminac,NB, Oct. I2 (ST), crossingbetween Yarmouth, NS, andPort- spiceof birding--isbeing added yearly to a andIOO at Tidnish Dock, NS, Sept.20 (ST). land, ME (LB). r