224 aver: STFOAXOrODES. — XXXIV. 



G73. P fuliginoBUB Stric-kland. Sooty Sukarwater. Rill 

 dusky. L. \i<. W. 12. H. Ijj. Athintic, N. to CJrand Banks. 

 (Lit , sooty.) 



340. JESTRELATA I}()nnj)arti'. (olarpfiXaroi, goaded on by a 

 era. 1 fly.) 



674. .23. hasitata (Kidil) Ri.ACK-(\\i'rKn rKTiiKi,. L'pp^rtail- 

 c'ovrrts ami lower parts white; upper parts mostly blarkish ; tail 

 graduated. L. K!. W. 11. T. 5. H. Ij. Atlantic, N. to N. Y., 

 searee. (IJn.) ( i.at., //<r.s/7r//«.s-, stuck-fast, the describer beinjj in 

 doubt.) 



341. PROCELLARIA Linnseus. (Lat., stormy.) 



675. P. pelagica L. Skikm ri:TKi:i.. Dusky; upper tail cov- 

 erts white, edited with black. L. :>'l. W. Ij. T. 2^. N. Atl., 

 rarely S. (I'Jn.) 



342. OCEANODROMA luicbciiltncli. {'Q<(ai>6i ocean ; Hftofj-ns, 

 runninjx) 

 67(i. O. leucorhoa Vieillot. Lkacii's Pkthkl. Sooty. uj)i)er 

 tail coverts white; fi'et black. L. H. W. (!^. T. 4. Northern 

 St-as. (/v'n.) (XfUKor, white ; oppor, rump.) 



343. OCEANITES Keyserling & Bla.sius, (wKtaviTTji, a son of 



the sea.) 

 677. O. oceanicuB (Kuhl). Wil.>^on's Pkthf.l. Sooty; wings 

 and tail blaek ; upper tail coverts white. L. 7. W. 6. T. 3. 

 Tarsus Ij. Cosmopolitan, conunon. (A'".) 



Okdkk XXXIV. STEGANOPODES. (The Totipal.matk 



BlltDS.) 



Desmo'^nathous swinuners with all four toes full-weblxMl ; hind 

 toe len'j;lhened, scarcely eli'vated ; tibia feathered; i>ill horny, not 

 lamellate; nostrils very small or abortive; no basipterygoids ; a 

 prominent gular pouch; tarsus reticulate. Altricial. "Notwith- 

 standing the shortness of the legs and the character of the toes, 

 . . . the birds of the present order are untjuestionably nearly re- 

 lated to the Heroilii" {Stejnetjer). Of this small order, most of the 

 species an^ sea-binls, active ami vonu-ions, alnjut half of all In-ing 

 cormorants, (orfyafor, covered ; trovr, foot.) 



Families of Steganopodes. 



a. Upper mamlibk' nut liookcii at tip. 



b. Uill very tliiik iliniu>,'h ba.sc, tlu' tip slightly curved; tail modemto, 



fjrailiiuti.'il. till- fcatiiers rather pointed Sl'i.in.*:, 131. 



66. Uill slcndiT, ufnily <itrni(;hl; ncrk very lonjj and slender; tail lonp, 

 fan-shii(MMl wlii'ii .s|)ri'iid, thr featluTs very hroad. ANiii.Nr.io.K, 132. 

 aa. Upper mandible houked at tip. 



