THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Bill, black, or blackish; wing, less than 5 inches 

 long (carpus to tip). 



Family ALC1D/E. Subfamily ALLIN/B. / 



Dovekies. 

 Little Auks. 

 See page 30. 



Very large wing, over 19 inches long; upper mandible, 

 curved near tip, forming a hook, the end (uuguis) en- 

 larged; nostrils, separate and tubular; hind toe, rudimen- 

 tary, often apparently wanting. 



Family DIOMEDEID/E. Albatrosses. 

 See page 4P>. 



Shearwater. 



Petrel. 



Fulmar. 



Nostrils, tubular, united iu one double-barrelled 

 tube ; front toes, palmate (full webbed; ; hind toe, very 

 small, and in some cases entirely absent ; upper mandi- 

 ble, curved near tip ; wing, less than 19 inches long. 



Family PROCELLARIID/C. 

 Shearwaters, Petrels, and Fulmars. 

 See page 46. 



