KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA, 



ORDER TUBINARES. 



Tube-nosed Swimmers. 



Family DIOMEDEID.E. Albatrosses. 

 Genus DIOMEDEA Linn. 



DIOMEDEA EXULANS Linn. 

 Wandering Albatross. 



Adult : (leneral color yellowish white ; remiges dusky ; h\\\ 

 white, pale yellowish at tip. Iiniiiattire birds are dark brown, 

 showing whitish on the forehead and face. 



Length about 4 feet; extent of wings (spread) aliout lo 

 to 12 feet. 



of a 



(Very much reduced.) 



>pecimen in Tampa Bay, Florida 



The only claim this species 

 eluded among our birds is the 



has to be in- 

 illeged capture 

 It is an Antarctic species. 



Family PROCELLARIID.E. Fulmars, Shearwaters, Petrels. 

 Genus PUFFINUS Brisson. 



PUFFINU5 MAJOR Faber. 

 Greater Shearwater. 



Adult : deneral plumage brown, grayish on 

 the head ; under parts and lining of wing white 

 tail brown ; crissum dark ; under tail coverts 

 gray ; tarsus dark in front, the rest pale. 



Length, 19: Wing, 12.50; Tail, 5.75 : Bill. 2.40 

 Tarsus, 2. 



Ranges from Cape Horn and Cape 

 of Good Hope to Greenland. I know 

 of no positive record of the occurrence 

 of this bird in Florida, but once saw 

 a stuffed specimen in Jackson\ille, 

 which the dealer claimed was killed 

 off the coast. 



