. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Range.—Southern seas, north in our summer along the Pacific coast of theUnited States. This species is entirely sooty brown except the white eyelids. It is similarto the Black-footed Albatross from which species it can be distinguished inall plumages by the narrow base of the bill, while the bill of the former speciesis broad and rounded. They breed commonly on isolated islands in manyquarters of the southern hemisphere. Sometimes this species
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Range.—Southern seas, north in our summer along the Pacific coast of theUnited States. This species is entirely sooty brown except the white eyelids. It is similarto the Black-footed Albatross from which species it can be distinguished inall plumages by the narrow base of the bill, while the bill of the former speciesis broad and rounded. They breed commonly on isolated islands in manyquarters of the southern hemisphere. Sometimes this species constructs amound of mud on which to deposit its single white egg, and also often laysit on the bare ground or rock. A specimen in Mr. Thayers collection, takenby Geo. Comer on So. Georgia Is, in the South .Atlantic ocean, was laid in ahollow among loose stones on the ledge of an overhanging cliff. Size GO TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS. KGG Ol SOOTY —White FULMARS, SHEARWATERS and PETRELS Family PROCELLARIDAE Fulmars, Shearwaters and Petrels are Gull-like birds with two nostril tubeslocated side by side, in a single tube, on the top of the bill at its base. The Fulmars are mostly northern birds while the majority of the Shear-waters nest in the extreme south during our winter, and appear off our coastsduring the summer. Their food consists of fish or offal which they get fromthe surface of the water; large flocks of them hover about fishermen, watch-ing their chance to get any food which falls, or is thrown, overboard.
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