. A history of British birds . d white; theback, all the wing-coverts, secondaries, tertials, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers pearl-grey; wing-primaries slate-grey ; breast, belly, and all the under surface of the bodywhite : sometimes with a little grey on the flanks ; legs, toes,and their membranes, pale grey in life, drying yellowish ;the claws slender, but curved and pointed. The whole lengthof an adult male is about nineteen inches ; the wing, fromthe anterior bend, twelve to thirteen inches; the middle toeand its claw longer than the tarsus. In the grey phase the Fulmar has the tip
. A history of British birds . d white; theback, all the wing-coverts, secondaries, tertials, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers pearl-grey; wing-primaries slate-grey ; breast, belly, and all the under surface of the bodywhite : sometimes with a little grey on the flanks ; legs, toes,and their membranes, pale grey in life, drying yellowish ;the claws slender, but curved and pointed. The whole lengthof an adult male is about nineteen inches ; the wing, fromthe anterior bend, twelve to thirteen inches; the middle toeand its claw longer than the tarsus. In the grey phase the Fulmar has the tip of the billyellow, the sides brownish-yellow, the sheath of the nostrilsalmost black; head, neck, back, wings, and tail nearlyuniform ash-brown, but the surface of the back and wingsrather darker in colour; chin, neck in front, and all theunder surface of the body also uniform ash-brown, butrather paler in colour than the upper surface; legs andtoes bluish horn-colour, membranes paler. PROCELLARIIDj;. TUBINARES. CESTRELITA H^SITATA (Kubl*). THE CAPPED PETREL. Procellaria h^Bsitata. (EsTRELATA, Bonapwtcf.—Bill rather shorter than the head, stout, com-pressed, straight for some distance, then ascending at the commencement of theunguis, which is sharply decurved, with an acute tip ; nasal tubes moderatelylong, elevated, conspicuous, the dorsal outline straight, the orifice long and pointed, extending beyond the tail when folded ; the first quilla trifle longer than the second. Tail moderately long and graduated. Tarsireticulated ; feet and front toes of moderate size ; hind toe small and elevated. The Capped Petrel represented above was observed inMarcb or April, 1850, by a boy on a beatb at Southacre,near Swaffbam in Norfolk, flapping for some time from one * Procellaria hasiiata, Kubl, Beit. Zool. i. p 142 (1820).f , Bonaparte, Gompt. Rend xlii. p. 768 (1856). Amended toCEslrelafa, the derivation being from olcTTpos (oestrus), a gad
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