. A dictionary of birds . 3-81), of which there is a German trans-lation in the Mitlhcilungen of the Ornithological Union of Vienna for 1883 (, 210-222, 238-241). ^ Most commonly but erroneously spelt Procellaridx. 7o8 PETREL and it is now hard to resist the conclusion that they have to beregarded as an Order, to which the name TUBINARES has beenapplied from the tubular form of their nostrils, a feature possessedin greater or less degree by all of them, and one by which each mayat a glance be recognized. They had been variously subdivided;but to little purpose until the anatomy of th
. A dictionary of birds . 3-81), of which there is a German trans-lation in the Mitlhcilungen of the Ornithological Union of Vienna for 1883 (, 210-222, 238-241). ^ Most commonly but erroneously spelt Procellaridx. 7o8 PETREL and it is now hard to resist the conclusion that they have to beregarded as an Order, to which the name TUBINARES has beenapplied from the tubular form of their nostrils, a feature possessedin greater or less degree by all of them, and one by which each mayat a glance be recognized. They had been variously subdivided;but to little purpose until the anatomy of the grouj) was subjectedto comparative examination by Garrod and W. A. Forbes, the latter ofAvhom summed up the results obtained by himself and his predecessorin an elaborate essay (forming part ix. of the Zoology of the voyage ofthe Challenger ) which shewed determinations that differed greatlyfrom any that had been reached by prior systematists. Accordingto these investigators, the l\ibinares are composed of two Families,. Petrel, Prion turtur. (After Biiller.) Procellariidx and OcecmitidcV, whose distinctness had hardly beforebeen suspected ^—the latter consisting of four genera not very muchdiffering in appearance from many others, Avhile the former includesas subfamilies Diomedeinai (Albatros), Avith three genera, Diomedea,Thalassiarche and Ihcehetria, and the true Petrels, FroceUariinse, inAvhich last are combined forms so different externally and in habitas the Diving-Petrels, Felecanoides or Halodroma, the Storm-Petrels,Procellaria, the Flat-billed Petrels, Prion, the Fulmar, the Shear-waters and others. Want of space forbids us here dwelling onthe characters assigned to these different groups, or the means whichhave led to this classification of it, set forth at great length in theessay cited Avhere also will be found copious references to previousstudies of the Petrels.^ ^ It is due to Prof. Coues to state that in 1864 he had decLared the genusOceanites, of which he o
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