66 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



Order TUBINARES. Tube-nosed Swimmers. 



Family PROCELLARIIDiE. Fulmars, Shearwaters and 

 Petrels. 



A. Wing over 8.00. 



1. Under parts not white. 



a'. Upper parts sooty black; under parts grayer: partition 

 between nostrils fully as wide as nostrils and ending flush 

 with nasal tubes at their front end. Sooty Shearwater. 



a^. Entire plumage uniform dark slaty gray ; nasal partition thin 

 and ending decidedly within the nasal tubes. Fulmar, dark 

 phase. (See Hypothetical List.) 



2. Under parts white. 



a'. Head white. Fulmar, light phase. (Hypothetical List.) 

 a'. Head not white, 

 b'. Rump, upper tail coverts, greater part of scapulars, second- 

 aries and basal two-thirds of tail white. Pintado Petrel, 

 b''. Fuscous above ; longer upper tail coverts merely white 

 tipped ; wings and tail dark fuscous. Greater Shearwater, 



B. Wing under 8.00. 



1. Tail forked. Leach's Petrel. 



2. Tail not forked. 



a'. Upper tail coverts black tipped ; webs of feet without yellow 

 marks. Stormy Petrel. (Hypothetical List.) 



a^. Upper tail coverts not black tipped ; webs of feet with yellow 

 marks. Wilson's Petrel. 



Subfamily PUFFING. Shearwaters. 

 Genus PUFFINUS Brisson. 



89. Pvffinus gravis (O'Reilly). Greater Shearwater; 

 Hagdon. 



Plumage : above grayish brown ; back feathers with paler tips ; longer 

 upper tail coverts whitish tipped ; belly smoky gray ; flanks and lower tail 

 coverts grayish brown ; other under parts white ; white throat abruptly con- 

 trasted with dusky sides and top of head and sides of neck. Wing 12.00 to 

 13.00; culmen 1.82; tarsus 2.15. 



Geog. Dist. — Atlantic Ocean from Cape Horn to Arctic regions ; ocean 

 wanderer whose breeding range is unknown. 



County Records — Cumberland ; said to be rather common by fishermen, 

 (Brown, C. B. P. p. 35). Waldo; seen near Islesboro, Aug. 10, 1901, by Dr. 

 J. C. White, (Howe, J. M. 0. S. 1902, p. 18). Washington ; common at sea, 

 (Boardman). 



