. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. Sooty Shearwater Length, 11^; wing, 8 (7i—8|); tail, 3| ; tarsus, 1| ; culmen, IJ. Warmer parts of the Atlantic, north casually to Long Island. The Manx Shearwater (90. Pufflnus pnffinus) is much like the last, but larger. Length, 14 ; wing, 8^9J ; tail, 4 ; tarsus, If ; culmen. If. A European species, accidental on the North American coast. 5. Sooty Shearwater (94. Pufflnus stricJc- landi). —A sooty-black shearwater with the \inder parts somewhat grayer and the b
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. Sooty Shearwater Length, 11^; wing, 8 (7i—8|); tail, 3| ; tarsus, 1| ; culmen, IJ. Warmer parts of the Atlantic, north casually to Long Island. The Manx Shearwater (90. Pufflnus pnffinus) is much like the last, but larger. Length, 14 ; wing, 8^9J ; tail, 4 ; tarsus, If ; culmen. If. A European species, accidental on the North American coast. 5. Sooty Shearwater (94. Pufflnus stricJc- landi). —A sooty-black shearwater with the \inder parts somewhat grayer and the bill blackish. (Black Hag- don.) Length, 17 ; wing, llf (llJ-12); tail, 4; tarsus, 2J; culmen, IJ. Atlantic Ocean ; breeding south of the equator, and migrating north in summer to South Carolina and northward. 6. Black-capped Petrel (98. ^strelata hasitdta). — A rare, southern, blackish-brown-backed petrel, with all lower parts and base of tail white. The otherwise white head is dis- tinctly capped with black and marked with a bar of black back of the eye. The tip of tail and the primaries are darker than the back. The you righsis the black of the head more or less connected and con- tinuous down the back neck. Blaok-oapped Petrel Length, 15; wing, llj; tail, 5; tarsus, 1|; culmen. If. Warmer portions of the Atlantic Ocean, straying to different sections from Florida to Ontario. 7. Stormy Petrel (104. ProcelliXria iwldgka). — A very small, square-tailed, sooty-black petrel, with white upper tail Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig), 1838-1908. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American Book Co
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