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I'UOCELLAHIID.E — THE TETKELS — UCEANITES. 



415 



gai'il to 



20th of 

 ■ee (lays 

 Hitting 

 , of food 

 iv wings 

 HH)i'iU'i'(l 

 gilt; lint 

 gs in tlu' 

 il several 

 after the 

 .'vidently 

 power of 

 ainiavent 

 )wn over- 

 auy other 



that this 

 nieriea, in 

 I than the 



ist of Cali- 

 icisco, and 



jt of Una- 

 was fonnd 

 2, 1ST2. 

 ,)ank near 

 in a hoh' 

 and al)oiit 

 aeed. In 

 •ontiuneil 

 been hiid 



le male of 

 speeies, as 

 h oily Hni'l 

 the burrow 

 found by 

 Unlike 

 u in stormy 

 jservatioiis 

 t the Norlli 



Dall and b,\ 

 lor, oval ill 

 .ts: 1.35 by 



IS 



Oceanodroma Hornbyi. 



HOBNBY'S PETBEL. 



Tluihissidroma Hnrnbiji, ViMiW, V. '/.. S. 185^, (J2. — Lawk, in Ikird's P.. N. Am. 1858, 820.— 



I5aii!1), ("at. N. Am. IJ. 185!t, iin. (141. 

 OcaiiUHlriiiiiii Jfonihiji, lioNAl'. ('Diisp. II. 18')(i, 10.'). --('(irKs, I'r. Ac. Nat. Sci. I'liilad. IStil, 7.'); 



Key, 1872, 32!) ; Chuck List, 1873, no. 5'J2 ; cd. 2, 1882, no. 827. — IfiDiiw. Nmii. N. Am. 15. 



1881, no. 727. 



Hau. North Piuilic Ocean (const of Alaska). 



Sp. Char. Ailnlf : " Front, cliciiks, throat, collar round iiind \Knt of the neck, breast, and 

 abdomen, jiure white ; crown, hind-head, a broad hand in front of neck, bend of wing and lesser 



wing-coverts, sooty gray ; iiiiper part of back gray ; lower part of back and tail ashy gray ; greater 

 \viiij,'-covcrts brownisli ^'ray ; tertiaries and nuills deep Idack. 



"Total length, 8]" ; bill from gape, lOA'", from Iront, 8A'" ; (ail (miter feather), 3|" ; tarsus, 

 1"; middle toe, 1"" ((!UAV). 



This rare species continues unkiu)Wii to American collections. 



This species was described by G. It. dray, and the example from which its descrip- 

 tion was taken had been iirocured on the' iiortliwest coast of Xortli America. In its 

 general apiiearanco and peculiarities it is said to correspond most nearly with 0. 

 fiitruta. We know nothing in regard to its specific habits or distribution. It lias 

 not been met witli by any of tlie parties who have visited or ex[ilored the regions 

 whence this species is said to have been obtained. 



Genus OCEANITES, Kkvskulinc. and Blasius. 



Occanitcs, Kkvs.& Hi.as. Wiib. Kur. \. 18-14, p. xiiii (type, ThilasMroma tVilsoni, Bv.,=Procd- 

 litria occaiiicii, Kuni.). 



CiiAU. Size very small ; tail more than half the wing, forked, the feathei-s very broad at the 

 ends ; tarsu.s much longer tiian the middle too and chiw (aliout two and a half times as long as 

 tile culmeii) ; plumage dusky, witii a white rump-patch. 



'f ids ucnus is representetl by a single species — the well-known Wilson's Stormy Petrel 



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