. 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. 778 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — L ON GIPENNES. — TUBINARES. 815. 81G. 322. 817, Atlantic, swarming at some of its favorite breeding places, especially St. Kilda, wi
. 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. 778 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — L ON GIPENNES. — TUBINARES. 815. 81G. 322. 817, Atlantic, swarming at some of its favorite breeding places, especially St. Kilda, wide ranging at other seasons; S. to U. S. in winter. Nest on crags over the sea; egg single, white, with rough brittle shell, resembling a hen's egg in size and shape ; young covered wdth whitish down; fed in the nest by regurgitation of an oily fluid. The fulmars are very greedy of fatty substances, and constantly attend the whale-fishery to feed upon the blubber. F. g. paci'flcus. (Lat. pacificus, pacific.) Pacific Fulmak. Averaging darker than No. S14, the mantle bluish-cinereous rather than pale pearly-blue; the bill rather weaker and less strongly hooked. N. Pacific, in vast numbers. Changes of plumage, habits, etc., the same as those of the common species. F. g. rod'gersi. (To Comm. John Eodgers, U. S. N.) Rodgeks' Fulmar. The mantle dark, as in pacificus, but much restricted, most of the wing-coverts and inner quills being white; primaries mostly white on inner webs, their shafts yellow. Size and shape as before. N. Pacific, swarming on some of the rocky islands in Bchring's sea. Nest on the crags ; single egg white, nearly equal-ended, rough with innumerable pits and points, X 1-90; chick hatches like a puif-ball of white down. PRIOCEL'LA. (Prion-\-Procella.) GuLL FuLMAES. Character of Fuhnarus proper; bill little shorter than head or tarsus, about f the middle toe and claw, compressed, higher than broad at base, not very robust, sides regularly tapering to rath
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