. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . ith peculiarly elongated central tail feathers. Theyare graceful birds, capable of strong, rapid flight; sometimesthey are seen far from the coast, though usually found nearthe shore. They live almost entirely on the Aving, and catchtheir prey, which consists almost exclusively of fish, by drop-ping suddenly down upon it from the air. 1. Yellow-billed Tropic Bird (112. PhTethon flavirdstris). —An exceedingly long-tailed, long-winged, white sea-bird, withblack on the out
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . ith peculiarly elongated central tail feathers. Theyare graceful birds, capable of strong, rapid flight; sometimesthey are seen far from the coast, though usually found nearthe shore. They live almost entirely on the Aving, and catchtheir prey, which consists almost exclusively of fish, by drop-ping suddenly down upon it from the air. 1. Yellow-billed Tropic Bird (112. PhTethon flavirdstris). —An exceedingly long-tailed, long-winged, white sea-bird, withblack on the outer quills and shoulder feathers of the shafts of the tail feathers are also black. Bill yellow andtail feathers tinged with salmon. The young lacks the elon- 314 KEY AND DESCRIPTION gated central tailfeathers, and hasthe upper partssomewhat irregular-ly barred with tail feathers aremarked with a blackspot near the tip. Yellow-billed Tropic Bird Leiiijth, 30; wing,11 ; tail, 20 or less; culnien, 2J. West Indies to Central America, northto Florida and Bermuda, accidental in New York and Nova ORDER XV. TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS (TUBI-NARES) An order of marine birds with tubular nostrils; practically,as far as our own birds are concerned, consisting of but thefollowing: FAMILY LVII. FlLMAUS, SIIKAKWATERS, AND rF>TRELS(PROCELLARllD^) This is a large family (70 species) of strong, swiftly flyingbirds, belonging strictly to the open ocean, and rarely seennear the shore except for breeding purposes. The fulmarsand shearwaters are large birds, but some of the petrels arevery small. The fulmars are much like gulls in appearance,but their method of flying is very different. They flap theirwings more like owls, and in scudding they hold them verystraight, at right angles with the body; they sail close to thewaves for great distances, apparently without moving theirwings. The flight of the petrels is peculiarly light and airy,more like that of butterflies than l
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