KEY TO TIIK WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



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ORDER TUBINARES. 



TuBE-xosED Swimmers. 



Family DIOMEDEID.E. Albatrosses. 



Genus DIOMEDEA Linn. 



DIOMEDEA EXULANS Liuu. 

 Wandering Albatross. 



Adult : General color yellowish white : remiges dusky; bill 

 white, pale yellowish at tip. Iiitiiiatnrc birds are dark brown, 

 showing whitish on the forehead and face. 



Length about 4 feet; extent of wings (spread) about 10 

 to 12 feet. 



The onh' claim this species has to be in- 

 cluded among our birds is the alleged capture 



(Very much reduced.) 



of a specimen in Tampa Bay, Florida. It is an Antarctic species. 



Family PROCELLARIID.E. Fulmars, Shearwaters, Petrels. 

 Genus PUFFINUS Brisson. 



PUFFINU5 MAJOR Faber. 

 Greater Shearwater. 



Adult : General plumage brown, grayish on 

 the head ; under parts and lining of wing white 

 tail brown ; crissumdark; under tail coverts 

 gray ; tarsus dark in front, the rest pale. 



Length, 19; Wing, 12.50: Tail, 5.75; Dill. 2.40 

 Tarsus, 2. 



Ranges from Cape Horn and Cape 

 of Good Hope to Greenland. I know 

 of no positive record of the occurrence 

 of this bird in Florida, but once saw 

 a stuffed specimen in Jackson^'ille, 

 which the dealer claimed was killed 

 off the coast. 



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