KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



Genus OCEANITES Keys, and Blas. 



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OCEANITES OCEANICUS {Kuhr). 

 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 ; bill 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 Ridgway. 



CYMODROMA GRALLARIA {VieilL). 



White-bellied Petrel. 



Upper parts dusky, under parts white. 



" Throat usually with only concealed white and without white on the hind neck." 



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



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



{Ridgway, Man. N. A. Birds, f. 72.) 



