. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. lit' Ilk 778 815. AlO. 322. S17. SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —LONGIPENNES. — TUDINAUES. tlaiitic, swarming at some of its fuvoritc brooding places, especially St. Kilda, wido ntnging at otluT seasons; S. to U. S. in winter. Nest on crags over tli«! sea; egg .><ingle, white, with rougii brittle shell, resembling a hen's egg in size
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. lit' Ilk 778 815. AlO. 322. S17. SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —LONGIPENNES. — TUDINAUES. tlaiitic, swarming at some of its fuvoritc brooding places, especially St. Kilda, wido ntnging at otluT seasons; S. to U. S. in winter. Nest on crags over tli«! sea; egg .><ingle, white, with rougii brittle shell, resembling a hen's egg in size and shape; young covered with down ; fed in the nest by regurgitation of an oily Huid. The fulmars are very greedy of fatty substances, and constantly attend the whale-fishery to feed upon the blubln'r. F, g. paci'flcus. (Lat. jmcijicus, pacific.) Pacific Fitlmak. Averaging darker than No. 814, the mantle bluisii-cinereous rather tiian pale pearly-blue; tiie bill rather weaker and strongly hooked. N. Pacific, in vast numbers. Changes of plumage, habits, etc., the same as those of the conmion species. F. g. rod'gersi. (To t'omin. John Kodgers, U. S. N.) Rouoeks' Fitlmau. The nuintlo dark, as in pucijicus, but much restricted, most of the wing-coverts and inner (piills being white; primaries mostly white on inner webs, their shafts y'.low. Size and shape as before. N. Pacific, swarming on some of the rocky islands in I5ehriiig's sea. Nest on the crags ; single egg white, nearly equal-ended, rougli with innumerable pits and points, X l.'JO; chick hatches like a pufl'-ball of white down. PKIOCEL'LA. (rrioti-\-rrocella.) GiLL Filmahs. Character of Fulmanis jiropcr; 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 ta|)ering to rather narrow tip ; grooves not so well marked as usual; hook moderate; commissure a little curved; outlines of inferior mandibular rami an
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