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TlIK lURDS OF EASTERN Noli 111 AMERICA. 



"^ Bill, black, or blackish; wing, les.s than 5 iiicli('< 



I iouj,' (carpus to tiji"). 



Family ALCID/E. Subfamily ALLIN^. 

 ^ -—-, I Dovekies. 



P:;^-J^ Little Auks. 



Ser page 30. 



\ wyi 



Very large wing, over 19 iuches long: upper mandible, 

 curved near tip, forming a hook, the end i unguis) en- 

 larged: nostrils, separate and tubular: hind toe. rudinien- 

 tarv. often apparently wanting. 



Family DIOMEDEID/E. Albatrosses. 

 See page 4G. 



sssm 



Shuiirwater. 



Petrel. 



Fulmar. 



Nostrils, tubular, united in one double-barrelled 

 tube; front toes, palmate (full webbed; ; hind toe, vtn-y 

 small, and in some ca.ses entirely absent; upper mandi- 

 ble, curved near tij): wing, less than 19 inches long. 



Family PROCELLARIID/E. 

 Shearwaters, Petrels, and Fulmars. 

 See page 4G. 



