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KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF KEORIDA. 



PUFFINUS AUDUBONI Fiusch. 

 Audubon's Shearwater. 



Adult: Above glossy brown, sluiding into grayish on the 

 sides of the breast : below white : crissum brown and white; 

 tail brown, the featliers tipped with ashy ; bill plumljeous. 



Length, II.5O: Wing. S ; I5ill. 1.20: Tarsus. 1.55. 



Occurs on the x\tlaiitic coast from Florida to New Jersey ; 



\'ery common in the Bahama Ishmds, where it hreeds : nest 



in holes in the rocks, where the bird lays a single chalky 



white egg. 



Genus /ESTRELATA Boxap. 





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ESTRELATA HASITATA (A/////). 

 .Black=capped Petrel. 



Adult : Head white: crown black; upper parts e.xcept upper tail coverts dusky : under parts 

 white ; sides of the chest sometimes gray. Upper and under tail coverts white. 

 Length, 16.50; Wing, 12; Bill, 1.35; Tarsus, 1.40. 



An Atlantic species rarely found near the coast. It has been taken in 

 " Florida and on Long Island." {Ridgn'cix, Man. J\'. A. Jh'i-ch, p. 66.) 



