328 PEOCELLARIIDiE, PETRELS. GEN. 301, 302, 303, 304. 



tip, and often at base. Changes of plumage as in the foregoing ; size the same, 

 but 1)111 2 long, scarcely f wide or high at the base, the tube about g long. 

 Pacific Coast; only casual? P. tenuirostris Aud., vii, 210; Lawe. in Bd., 



826; P. glacialoides Smith; Thalassoica 

 glacialoides Reich. ; Coues, I. c. 30; P. 

 smithii Schlegel ; Priocella garnoti 

 HoMB. and Jacq. . . tenuirostris. 



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301. Genus DAPTIOW Stephens. 



Pintado Petrel. Cape Pigeon. 

 siender-iDiiku Fulmar. Speckled above Avith blackish and white ; 

 white below; tail black-barred ; bill black ; 15; wing 11 ; tail 4^; bill 1^ ; 

 tarsus 1§. Accidental on the Coast of California. Lawr., Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y. 1853, 6, and in Bd., 828 capensis. 



302. Genus ^STRELATA Bonaparte. 



i-^^ Blaclc-capped, Petrel. Adult: forehead, sides of head, neck all round, 

 upper tail coverts, base of tail and all under parts, white ; back clear bistre- 

 brown (nearly uniform, but the feathers often with paler or ashy edges), 

 deepening on the quills and terminal half of tail ; crown with an isolated 

 blackish cap, and sides of head with a black bar (younger birds with the 

 white of the head and neck behind resti-icted, so that these dark areas run 

 together) ; bill black ; tarsi and base of toes and webs, flesli-colorecl (drying 

 yellowish); rest of toes and webs black. Young extensively dark below? 

 Length 16 ; wing 12 ; tail 5 J, cuneate, its graduation 1^ : tarsus If ; middle 

 toe aud claw 2^ ; bill If, § deep at base, f wide ; tube ^. Of casual occur- 

 rence on the Atlantic Coast, U.S. P. hcesitata Kuhl, Monog. 142, No. 11 ; 

 Temm., pi. Col. No. 416; Newton, Zool. x, 1852, p. 3691 ; Sciileg., M. 

 P.-B. 13 ; ^-E. hmsitata Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1866, 139 ; P. meridionalis 

 Lawe., Ann. Lye. N. Y. iv, 475 ; v. 220, pi. 15 ; in Bd., 827. ii^sitata. 



303. Genus HALOCYPTETTA Coues. 



K'6^ Wedge-tailed, or Least Petrel. Blackish, more fuliginous below, the 

 greater wing coverts more grayish, the quills, tail, bill and feet black; no 

 white anywhere. Length 5f ; wing 4f ; tail 2J, cuneate, the graduation J ; 

 bill J, its height at base I; tarsus .90; tibiiB bare ^. Lower California; 

 one specimen known (No. 11, 420, Mus. Smiths. Inst.). Coues, Proc. 

 Phila. Acad. 1864, 79 ; Elliot, pi. 61 microsoma. 



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304. Genus PROCELLARIA Linnseus. 



Stormy Petrel. Mother Carei/s Chichen. Coloration of the last species, 

 but upper tail coverts luhite, with black tips, and usually some white under 

 the tail and wings ; no j^ellow on the webs ; tail a little rounded. About the 

 size of the last. Common ofl' the Atlantic Coast. Nutt., ii, 327; Aud., 

 vii, 228, pi. 461; Lawr. in Bd., 831 pelagica. 



