1028 SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — TUBINARES. 



Analysis of Genera. 



Fulmar Petrels, without evident ridges inside the edge of upper mandible. 



Tail IG-feathered. Lengtli 30.00 or more Ossifraga 



Tail 14-feathered. Length 15.00-20.00. Plumage Gull-like. 



Bill very stout, much shorter than tarsus Fulmarus 



Bill less stout, little shorter than tarsus Priocella 



Pintado Petrels, with evident ridges inside the edge of upper mandible 



Tail 14-feathered. Length 15.00. Plumage spotted above, white below Daption 



OSSIF'RAGA. (Lat. ossifragus, bone-breakiug ; os, geu. ossis, bone, and frangere, to break. 

 As a noun, feminine ossifraga was applied to the ossifrage, osprey, or sea-eagle, before it was 

 transferred to this genus of Petrels as equivalent to quehrantahiiesos.) Giant Fulmar. Of 

 immense size and powerful organization ; as large as most Albatrosses. Bill longer than head, 

 not shorter than tarsus, very robust, deeply grooved; nasal tube very long, reaching half-way 

 or more from base to tip of bill, depressed, carinate, with contracted orifice. Hook of upper 

 mandible large and strong ; under mandible not hooked. Commissure sinuate ; gape restricted, 

 not reaching under eye. Frontal feathers extending obtusely upon root of nasal case ; mental 

 feathers extending to gonys. Outline of lower mandibular rami about straight ; gonys straight, 

 ascending, with obtuse angle. Feet large; tibiae bare below; tarsus short, much less than 

 middle toe without claw, reticulate ; outer and middle toes with claws, of equal lengths ; hind 

 toe merely a stout claw ; webs full. Wings short, not very acute, folding short of end of tail. 

 Tail moderate, graduated, 16-feathered. One species. 



O. gigan'tea. (Lat. gigantea, gigantic.) Giant Fulmar. Bone-breaker. Quebran- 

 TAHUESOS. OsPREY Petrel. Largest of Petrels. Length 30. 00-3G. 00; extent 6 or 7 feet ; 

 wing 17.50-20.50; tail 7.00-8.00, graduated about 2.50; bill 3.50-4.00, the nasal case nearly 

 2.00; tarsus 3. .50; middle or outer toe and claw nearly 6.00; inner ditto 4.50. Plumage very 

 variable with age or other circumstances ; usually dark dingy gray or uniform fuliginous above, 

 paler, whitish or white below ; wings and tail dusky ; in some states believed to be normal to 

 the adult ,^ 9 > entirely sooty ; in others nearly white all over. Bill mostly yellow, varying 

 to olivaceous, grayish, or whitisli ; feet dingy yellowish or brownish -black. Southern seas ; 

 casually N. to Oregon. The giant Fulmar Petrel has been called by Cooper "common off 

 Monterey," perhaps by mistaking one of the dark-colored Albatrosses for it. 

 FUL'MARUS. (Latinized from Eng. fulmar, Gaelic falmair or fulmaire.) Fulmars. Of 

 moderate size, and general Gull-like aspect; white with pearly-blue mantle, or smoky-gray. 

 Bill shorter than tarsus, about f as long as head, very robust, especially at base, with turgid 

 sides ; hook short, stout, very convex, rising almost from the end of the nasal case ; commissure 

 greatly curved ; outline of mandibular rami a little concave ; gonys ascending ; grooves of both 

 mandibles profound. Nasal tube longer than gonys, nearly half the culmen, prominent, turgid, 

 with straight upper outline, truncate emarginate end and thin partition. Wings of moderate 

 length, folding about to end of tail; primaries broad, tapering rapidly to rounded ends, 2d 

 nearly as long as 1st. Tail of 14 feathers broad to their ends, somewhat graduated. Feet 

 rather small. Gull-like ; tibise bare below ; tarsus compressed, J as long as middle toe and claw. 

 Outer and middle toes with claws of about equal lengths ; hind toe appearing as a stout sessile 

 claw. One species. 



Analysis of Subspecies. 



N. Atlantic. 



Larger : wing about 13.00 glacialis 



Smaller : wing about 12.00 minor 



N. Pacific. 



Mantle uniform glupischa 



Mantle mixed with white rodgersi 



F. glacia'lis. (Lat. glacialis, icy.) Common Fulmar. St. Kilda Pet^iel. Haffherr 

 or Sea-horse. John Down. Molly Maw^k. Mollemoke. Mallemuck, etc. (corrup- 



