FAM. LVIII. ALBATROSSES 



319 



Wilson's Petrel 



breeding time being the southern summer and its breeding- 

 home the southern 

 seas. 



Length, 7^ ; wing, 

 (5|-6i);tail,'3;tarsiis, 

 1^; culmen, J. North 

 Atlantic ocean, and 

 oceans of the soutli- 

 ern hemisphere. The 

 White - bellied Petrel 

 (110. Cymodroma (mil- 

 iaria) is a small, long- 

 legged, blackish-gray 

 petrel with the lower 

 breast and belly abrupt- 

 ly white. The upper tail coverts and the bases of .ill tail feathers, except 

 the middle pair, are also white. Length, 8 ; wing, (\\ ; tail, o ; tarsus, 1| ; 

 culmen, h Tropical oceans ; accidental on the coast of Florida. 



FAMILY LVIIL ALBATROSSES (DIO.MEDEID.E) 



The albatrosses are large ocean birds of the southern hemi- 



sphere,with very great 

 ex})anse of wings and 

 power of flight. These 

 birds have rarely, if 

 ever, been found on 

 our eastern coasts ; 

 four species visit our 

 Pacitic coast. They 

 are rarely found near 

 sliore, being able, 

 seemingly, to remain 

 on the wing without 

 ever tiring. Two rec- 

 ords are given of two 

 of the species. 



1. The "Wandering Albatross (SO. 1. Diomklea exidans) is a 

 large species of dusky to white color, according to age. 



Length, 50 ; wing, 28. Reported from the western coast of Florida, 



Wandering Albatross 



