. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. s^^tTF—^—:r-i. PROCELLARIID^: PBOCELLABIINJE: SHEARWATERS. 787 blackish, except a few of the shortest just at the vent. More dark color on flanks, on lining of w
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. s^^tTF—^—:r-i. PROCELLARIID^: PBOCELLABIINJE: SHEARWATERS. 787 blackish, except a few of the shortest just at the vent. More dark color on flanks, on lining of wings and axillars than in obseurus. In the dry state, bill yellowish or reddish-brown, the nasal tubes and eulnien blackish, the hook mostly bluish-white. Outside of tarsus for the most part, outer toe and edges of webs, blackish ; rest of foot pale yellowish flesh-color; "iris ; Wing about ; tail , graduated ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw ; chord of cuhnen ; gape ; end of nasal tubes to tip ; height at base , at hook Cape St. Lucas, L. Gala. Decidedly diflerent from P. obseurus. (P. gavia Porst. ?) 837. P. fuligino'sus. {Ij&t. fuliginosus, sooty. Fig. .528.) Sooty Shearwater. Very different from any of the foregoing. Nearly uniform dark sooty-brown, blackening on quills and tail-feathers, more sooty-gray below, paler still on the throat; Hniug of wings mixed sooty and whitish. Bill drying an undefinable dark color, in life dusky bluish-horn color, the tube, ridge, and hook black- ish ; feet drying dai'k outside, pale inside; in life the inside of tarsus and upper side of feet livid flesh-color, the outside of outer toe and under side of feet blackish; eye blackish. Length about , ratlier less than more; extent about Fig. .528. - Sooty Shearwater, nat. size. (Ad nat. rtel. E. C) ; wing ; tail ; tarsus ; middle toe and claw ; chord of culmen ; gape ; feathers on side o
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