. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. BVLWERIA. 69 \ita ordliirit Genus BULWERIA Bonaparte. (Page 64, pi. XIV., fig. 5.) Species. Common Characters.—Plumage entii*ely dusky sooty brownish darker on upper parts. a'. Greater wing-coverts rather light sooty grayish brown, like lower parts; above dark sooty brown, paler on greater wing-coverts, nearly black on lesser wing- coverts and quills ; lower partH uuiform sooty grayish brown. Downy yomuj : Uniform dark sooty brown. Length about , wing , tail , graduated lor


. A manual of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. BVLWERIA. 69 \ita ordliirit Genus BULWERIA Bonaparte. (Page 64, pi. XIV., fig. 5.) Species. Common Characters.—Plumage entii*ely dusky sooty brownish darker on upper parts. a'. Greater wing-coverts rather light sooty grayish brown, like lower parts; above dark sooty brown, paler on greater wing-coverts, nearly black on lesser wing- coverts and quills ; lower partH uuiform sooty grayish brown. Downy yomuj : Uniform dark sooty brown. Length about , wing , tail , graduated lor , culinen ., tarsus ., middle toe .95. £!g(j X 1-2. Bab. Eastern Middle Atlantic, chiefly in the vicinity of the Canaries and Madeira ; accidental at Bermudas and near coast of Green- land 101. B. bulweri (Jard. & Selbv). Bulwer's Petrel. rt'. Greater wing-coverts , like rest of wings. ("Like T. buliccri, but with bill rather larger; and it is without the sooty brown on the ;— Gray.) B. tnacgillivrayi (Gray). Macgillivray's Petrel.* Genus DAPTION Stepdens. (Page 55, pi. XIL, fig. 3.) tSpecies. Lower parts (except chin and throat), rump, upper tail-coverts, and basal two- thiidsof tail, together with greater portion of scapulars and secondaries, white; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, marked with triangular spots of dark sooty plumbeous ; wing, excojn as descrilted, chiefly sf>oty plumbeous, as is also the terminal third of the tail; bill deep black ; length about , wing , culmen about J£ab. Southern seas in general, north, on Pacific coast of America (accidentally only ?) to California 102. D. capensis (Linn.). Pintado Petrel. Gb!» HALOCYPTENA Coues. (Page 56, pi. XIL, fig. 4.) Species. ish. lighter and more brownish on lower parts, middle and H. and fore part of head ; bill atid feet uniform bhuk ; length tail the outer feathers .40 shorter; culmen .45, tarsus Hah. Coust of Low


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