. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . Albatross. Adult: General color yellowish white ; remiges dusky; billwhite, pale yellowish at tip. Immature birds are dark brown,showing whitish on the forehead and face. Length about 4 feet; extent of wings (spread) about loto 12 feet. The only claim this species has to be in-cluded among our birds is the alleged capture (Very much reduced.) of a specimen in Tampa Bay, Florida. It is an Antarctic species. Family PROCELLARIID^. Fulmars, Shearwaters, PUFFINUS Brisson.
. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . Albatross. Adult: General color yellowish white ; remiges dusky; billwhite, pale yellowish at tip. Immature birds are dark brown,showing whitish on the forehead and face. Length about 4 feet; extent of wings (spread) about loto 12 feet. The only claim this species has to be in-cluded among our birds is the alleged capture (Very much reduced.) of a specimen in Tampa Bay, Florida. It is an Antarctic species. Family PROCELLARIID^. Fulmars, Shearwaters, PUFFINUS Brisson. PUFFINUS MAJOR Shearwater. Adult: General plumage brown, grayish onthe head ; under parts and lining of wing whitetail brown: crissumdark; under tail covertsgray ; tarsus dark in front, the rest pale. Length, 19; Wing, ; Tail,; Bill, , .l. Ranges from Cape Horn and Capeof Good Hope to Greenland. I know. of no positive record of the occurrenceof this bird in Florida, but once sawa stuffed specimen in Jacksonville,which the dealer claimed was killedoff the 202 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. PUFFINUS AUDUBONI Shearwater.
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