. 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. PROGELLABIIDJE: DIOMEBEIN^: ALBATROSSES. 775 than half the wing (in one species about one-third the wing). Coloration variegated with white and black, or uniformly ful
. 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. PROGELLABIIDJE: DIOMEBEIN^: ALBATROSSES. 775 than half the wing (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 Phosbastria. Analysis of Species. a Adult white, with dark wings and tail; bill and feet light , brachyura 810 Adult fuliginous; bill and feet dark nigripes 811 •SIO. D. brachyu'ra. (Gr. ^paxus, 6ractos, short; oupa, ojtra, tail.) Shokt-tailed Albatross. Bill or inches long, witli moderately concave culmen and prominent hook. Frontal feathers forming almost no reentrance on culmen, running nearly straight, around whole base of upper mandible, and extending scarcely farther on sides of under mandible, with 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 inches. Adult plumage white, the head and neck usu- ally washed with shining rusty-yellow; wings and tail dark or blackish, with a wholly indeterminate amount of white on the coverts and inner quills — sometimes nearly all the wing-coverts white excepting a line along the border of the fore-arm — sometimes the white restricted to a small space at the elbow. Bill pale reddish-yellow, drying pale dingy- yellowish ; feet flesh-color. Young dark-colored, resembling nigripes, but easily distinguished. Pacific Ocean at large; abundant off our
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