KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



Genus OCEANITES Keys, and Blas. 



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OCEANITES OCEANICUS (A"/////). 

 Wilson's Petrel. Mother Gary's Chicken. 



Adult : General plumage dark brown ; wing coverts edged with pale brown ; part of upper 

 tail coverts white ; tail black ; Ijill black : legs and feet black: yellow spots on the webs between 

 the toes. 



Length, 7; Wing, 5.60; Tail, 2.45 : Tarsus. 1.25; Bill, .60. 



Common off the Atlantic coast in summer. It ranges throughout the 

 "North and South Atlantic and Southern Oceans." (a.o.u.) 



Genus CYMODROMA Ridgnyay. 



CYMODROMA QRALLARIA {Vieill.). 



White=bellied Petrel. 



Upper parts dusky, under parts white. 



'■ Throat usually with only concealed wliite and witiiout white on the hind neck."' 



Length, 8; Wing, 6.25 ; Tail, 3.10; Tarsus, 1.50. 



" Intertropical seas, north casually to coast of Florida." 



{Ridoiva\\ Man. X. A. Birds, p. yj.) 



