. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. Sooty Shearwater migrating north in summer to South Carolina and northward. 6. Black-capped Petrel (98. ^Estrelata Jiasitata). — A rare, southern, blackish-browm-backed petrel, with all lower parts and base of tail white. The otherwise white head is dis- tinctly capped with black and marked with a bar of black back of the eye. The tip of tail and the primaries are darker than the back. The young has the black of the head more or less connected and con- tin
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. Sooty Shearwater migrating north in summer to South Carolina and northward. 6. Black-capped Petrel (98. ^Estrelata Jiasitata). — A rare, southern, blackish-browm-backed petrel, with all lower parts and base of tail white. The otherwise white head is dis- tinctly capped with black and marked with a bar of black back of the eye. The tip of tail and the primaries are darker than the back. The young has the black of the head more or less connected and con- tinuous down the back neck. Black-capped Petrel Length, 15; wing, 11|; tail, 5 ; tarsus, If; culmen, If. Warmer portions of the Atlantic Ocean, straying to different sections from Florida to Ontario. 7. Stormy Petrel (104. ProcelUiria peldgica). — A very small, square-tailed, sooty-black petrel, with white upper tail coverts,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, Austin Craig, 1838- [from old catalog]. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book company
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