North American Birds Ecujs. 



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All t'.ir.t,'^ in the collection of Col. John K. Thayer was taken on (Jou^h Island, 

 South Atlantic Ocean; iSept. 1st., 188S. The nest was a mound of mud and 

 ijrass ahout two feet in heijjht. The single white egg measured B.75 x 2.25. It 

 was collected by Geo. Comer. 



8 2. Sooty Albatross. Phahetria fiiUginosa. 



Range. — Southern seas, north in our summer along the Pacific coast of the 

 Cnited States. 



This species is entirely sooty lirown except the white eyelids. It is similar to 

 the Black-footed Albatross from wliich species it can be distinguished in all 

 plumages by the narrow base of the bill, while the bill of the former species is 

 broad and rounded. They breed commonly on isolated islands in many 

 (luarters of the southern hemisphere. Sometimes this species constructs a 

 mound of mutl on which to deposit its single white egg, and also often lays it on 

 the bare ground or rock. A specimen in >Ir. Tliayer's collection, taken by Geo. 

 Comer on So. Georgia Is. in tlie South Atlantic ocean was laid in a hollow 

 among loose stones on the ledge of an overhanging cliff. Size 4.10 x 2,75. 



[White. 



FULMARS and SHEARWATERS. Family PROCELLARIDAE. 



Fulmars and Shearwaters are (Jull-like birds with two nostril tulies located 

 side liy side, in a single tube, on the top of the bill at it's 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 coasts 

 during the summer. Their food consists of fish or offal which they get from 

 the surface of the water; large Hocks of them hover about fishermen, watching 

 their chance to get any food which falls, or is thrown, overboard. 



