. 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. PBOCELLABIID^: DI0MEBEIN2E: ALBATROSSES. Jib than half the -sring (in one species about one-third the wing). Coloration variegated with white and black, or unifo
. 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. PBOCELLABIID^: DI0MEBEIN2E: ALBATROSSES. Jib than half the -sring (in one species about one-third the wing). Coloration variegated with white and black, or uniformly fuliginous. Of largest size in the subfamily. D. exulans is type of this group ; our two species fall in a subgenus Phccbastna. Analysis of Species. Adult white, with dark wings and tail; bill and feet ligbt , brachyura 810 Adult fuliginous ; bill and feet dark nigripes fill 810. D. brachyu'ra, (Gr. (Spa^i^f, irac/jKS, short; ovpd, ojtra, tail.) Short-tailed Albatross. Bill or inches long, with moderately concave culmeu aud prominent hook. Frontal feathers forming almost no reentrance on culmeu, running nearly straight around whole base of upper mandible, and extending scarcely farther on sides of under mandible, wiih hardly any convexity. Tail very short, contained rather more than 3 times in length of wing. Total length about feet, with spread of about feet; wing inches; tail inches; tarsus nearly iuchcs. Adult plumage white, the head and neck usu- ally washed witli shiniug rusty-yellow ; wings and tail dark or blackish, with a wholly indeterminate amouut of white on the coverts and inner cjuills â souietimes nearly all the wing-coverts white excepting a line ahjng the border of the fore-arm â sometimes the white restricted to a small space at the elbow. Bill pale reddish-yell(jw, drying pale dingy- yellowish ; feet flesh-color. Young dark-colored, resembling nigripes, but easily distinguished. Pacific Ocean at large; abundant
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