202 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



PUFFINUS AUDUBONI Fhisch. 

 Audubon's Shearwater. 



Adult : Above glossy brown, shading into grayish on the 

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

 tail brown, the feathers tipped with ashy ; bill plumbeous. 



Length, 11. 5O; Wing, 8 ; Bill, 1.20; Tarsus. 1.55. 



Occurs on the Atlantic coast from Florida to New Jersey ; 



very common in the Bahama Islands, where it breeds ; nest 



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



white egg. 



Genus /ESTRELATA Bonap. 



>CSTRELATA HASITATA {Kiikl). 

 Black-capped Petrel. 



Adult : Head white ; crown black ; upper parts except 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." {Ridgway , Man. TV". A. Birds, p. 66.) 



