1040 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — TUBIN ARES. 



lous boundaries ; under wing- and tail-coverts white. Sides of head white, with a distinct 

 narrow darlt bar through eye ; a white superciliary line ; forehead and crown mixed white and 

 ashy. Primaries and secondaries with distinct pure white areas on inner webs ; on the prima- 

 ries these areas occupying the whole webs at base, sending a narrow wedge forward ; primaries 

 lightening from without inward, secondaries abruptly darkening again. Bill black ; tarsus 

 livid flesh -color; basal third of toes and contained portion of webs yellowish, the rest black. 

 Chord of culmen 1.05; height of bill at base 0.45-0.50; width 0.40-0.45; tarsus 1.85; middle 

 toe and claw 1.68; outer ditto 1.65; inner ditto 1.40. Wing 9.80; tail 3.90; graduated 0.75. 

 Southern seas ; a waif caught in New York State, Livingston Co., Apr. 1880. ^strelata 

 gularis Brewst. Bull. Nutt. Club, Apr. 1881, p. 94 (but not Procellaria gularis Peale, 

 1848) ; A. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1886, No. [99]. ^. scalaris Brewst. Auk, July, 1886, p. 390 ; 

 KiDGW. Man. 1887, p. 68; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. [99]. (E. gularis Coues, Key, 

 2d and 3d eds. 1884 and 1887, p. 780. (E. scalaris Coues, Key, 4th ed. 1890, p. 906 ; Salvin, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv, 1896, p. 416. 



CE. flsh'eri. (To Wm. J. Fisher, of Kadiak, Alaska. Fig. 708.) Fisher's Petrel. 

 Closely related to the last. Above plumbeous-gray, blackish on lesser wing-coverts ; edges of 

 secondaries hoary white ; head and lower parts white ; crown spotted with blackish, belly over- 

 laid by a wash of smoky plumbeous; a dark spot below eye ; tail largely white with irregular 

 gray barring and vermiculation. Wing 10.15; tail 4.00, graduated 0.90; culmen 1.00; tarsus 

 1.35; middle toe 1.40. Oflf coast of Alaska (Kadiak). ^.fislieri Ridgv^. Pr. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. v, June, 1883, p. 6.56; viii, 1885, p. 18; Man. 1887, p. 68 ; Auk, Oct. 1895, p. 319, 

 pi. 4; Coues, Key, 2d-4th eds. 1884-90, p. 780; Bd. Brew, and Eidgw. N. A. Water 

 Birds, ii, 1884, p. 396; A. 0. U. Lists, 1st and 2d eds. 1886-95, No. 100 ; Salvin, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxv, 1896, p. 415. The type specimen remains unique and is not referable to 

 any other species, though near CE. gularis and CE. defilippiana. 



BULWE'RIA. (Toone Bulvver.) Columbine Petrels. General characters of CEsirefoto ; 

 bill similar with smaller nail and straighter commissure. Tail longer, more than J the wing, 

 cuneate. Size small. Color fuliginous. Two species, one a waif in North America. The 

 other is B. macgillivrayi of the Fiji Islands. (Given under (Estrelata in 2d-4th eds. of Key.) 

 B. bul'weri. Bulwer's Petrel. Adult: Plumage entirely fuliginous, almost black on 

 wings and tail, lighter and more brownish below, somewhat ashy on head, gray on greater 

 wing-coverts. Length about 10.00; wing 8.00; tail 4..50, graduated 1.75 ; chord of culmen 

 0.85; tarsus 0.90-1.00 ; middle or outer toe and claw 1.10 ; inner ditto 0.85. Temperate North 

 Atlantic and North Pacific oceans; Canary Islands, etc; accidental at Bermudas; has once 

 occurred off Greenland. (Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, p. 158; Zool. 1881, p. 378.) Egg white, 

 1.60-1.75 X 1.20, laid in burrows or rocky crevices; young covered with sooty down. Proc. 

 bulweri Jard. and Selby, pi. 65, pub. Nov. 1828. P. anjinho, Hein. 1829. Puffinus 

 columbinus Webb and Berthelot. 



Subfamily PROCELLARIIN>E : Short-legged Stormy Petrels. 



Nasal tubes prominent, truncate, with thin partition between the nostril:? (much as in the 

 (Estrelata group of the Puffinince). Bill of moderate size and not diagnostic shape; both 

 mandibles well hooked at end, as in most Petrels (compare Fulmarince). Tail 12-feathered, 

 of variable shape — square, forked, or wedged. Wings not very long: 2d primary longer than 

 1st; secondaries more than 10 (as throughout the family excepting Oceanitince) . Feet not 

 notably lengthened ; leg-bones shorter than wing-bones. Tarsal bone not twice as long as 

 femur; tarsus little if any longer than middle toe and claw; tarsal envelop reticulate in front, 

 with no tendency to fuse in a booted podotheca ; tibise feathered nearly to the joint. Hallux 

 minute. Claws compressed, curved, acute (compare Oceanitince). Size at a minimum iu the 



