. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 654 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. Description. The general color of the plumage is dark Booty-browni primaries and tail black- !5h-brown, the latter Tvhite at the base; some of the outer secondanes and the secondary coverts grayish-ash, ending with grayish-white; rump, sides of the abdo- men and exterior l
. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 654 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. Description. The general color of the plumage is dark Booty-browni primaries and tail black- !5h-brown, the latter Tvhite at the base; some of the outer secondanes and the secondary coverts grayish-ash, ending with grayish-white; rump, sides of the abdo- men and exterior lower tail covert., white; bill black; iris dark-brown; tars, and feet black, with the webs yellow except at the margin. This species is somewhat smaller than T. Leachii, and more delicate in form; Jie bill is much weaker: it may readily be distinguished by the greater proportion of white on the under tail coverts and on the sides ac the base i' the tail, together with its much longer tarsi and yellow webs; tail nearly even. Length, seven and one-fourth inches; wing, six; tail, three-quarters; bill, seven- twelfths inch; tarsus, one and three-eighths inch. ffai. —Off the Atlantic coast from t' Gulf of Mexico to Baffin's Bay. This species is rare on our coast, and, to my knowledge, does not breed within the limits of New-England shores. Audubon says,— " Wilson's Petrel breeds on some small islands situated off the southern extremity of Nova Scotia, called ' Mud Islands,' but which are formed of sand and light earth, scantily covered with grass. Thither the birds re- sort in great numbers about the beginning of June, and form bur- rows of the depth of two or two and a half feet, in the bottom of which is laid a single white egg; a few bits of dry grass, scarcely deserving the name of a nest, having been placed for its reception. The egg measures an inch and a half in length by seven-eighths of an inch in breadth ; is almost equally rounded at both ends. ... On wing, this
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