202 



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 : crissuni brown and white : 

 , "^ tail brown, the feathers tipped with ashy : bill pluml)eous. 



Length, II.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 hreeds ; nest 



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



white egg. 



Genus /ESTRELATA Boxaf 





ESTRELATA HA5ITATA {Kiihl). 

 Black=capped Petrel. 



.Idtilt : 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. 140. 



An Atlantic species rarely found near the coast. It has been taken in 

 "Florida and on Long Island."' {Ridi>^iva\\ Miui. J^'. A. Birds, p. 66.) 



