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KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



PUFFINUS AUDUBONI Finsch. 

 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, II.5O: Wing. 8 ; ISill. 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 tlie bird lavs a single chalky 



white egg. 



Genus /ESTRELATA B 



30XAP. 



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^ESTRELATA HA5ITATA (A7////). 

 Black=capped Petrel. 



. Idiilt : 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."' (/^n/ozLUiy, Man. X. A. Birds, p. 66.) 



