780 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. -^ LONGIPENNES— TUBINABES. 



887. (addenda). CE. gula/ris. (Lat. gula/ris, pertaining to the throat.) Peale's Petrel. 

 Form typically of (Estrelata as above given ; size smaller. Adult : Upper parts, including 

 tail-coverts and exposed surfaces of tail-feathers, pure cinereous, deepening to plumbeous on 

 hind-head, rump, and lesser wing-coverts, the feathers of the back and greater and middle 

 wing-coverts tipped with ashy-white. Under parts pure sUky white, the ash of the upper 

 coming down the sides of the neck and deepening as it extends more broadly along sides and 

 ' quite across abdomen, which is plumbeous, this color with vague and nebulous boundaries ; 

 under wing- and tail-coverts white. Sides of head white, with a distinct narrow dark bar 

 through eyes ; a white superciliary line; forehead and crown mixed white and ashy. Primaries 

 and secondaries with distinct pure white areas on inner webs; on the primaries these areas 

 occupying the whole webs at base, sending a narrow wedge forward, included between dark 

 areas of the webs.; primaries lightening from without inward, secondaries abruptly darkening 

 again. Bill black ; tarsus livid flesh-color; basal third of toes and contained webs yellowish, 

 the rest black. Young : Darker ; especially more cloudy below ; throat and orissum white. 

 Chord of culmen 1.05 ; height of bill at base 0.45-0.50 ; width 0.40-0.45 ; tarsus 1.35 ; middle 

 toe and claw 1.68; outer do. 1.65; inner do. 1.40. Wing 9.80; tail 3.90; graduated 0.75. 

 Southern Seas ; a waif caught in N. Y. State, Livingston Co., Apr. 1880. (BuU. Nutt. Club, 

 vi, 1881, p. 91.) 

 887a. CE. fisheri. Pishee's Petrel. Closely related to the last ; perhaps requiring confirmation. 

 Above plumbeous-gray, blackish on lesser wing-coverts, the edges of the secondaries hoary 

 white ; head and lower parts white, the crown spotted with blackish, the belly overlaid by a 

 wash of smoky plumbeous. Wing 10.15 ; tail 4.00 ; culmen 1.00 ; tarsus 1.35 ; middle toe 

 1.40. Off coast of Alaska (Kodiak). (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, p. 656.) 



820. CE. bul'weri. Bulwer's Petrel. A small sooty-colored species, with cuneate tail more 

 than half as long as wings, not typical of (Estrelata, perhaps forming a genus apart (Bulweria}. 

 Length about 10.00; wing 8.00; tail 4.50, graduated 1.75; biU 0.85 (chord of culmen), ol 

 ordinary (Estrelata shape ; tarsus 0.90-1.00 ; middle or outer toe and claw 1.10 ; inner do. 

 0.85. Plumage entirely fiiliginous, almost black on wings and tail, lighter and more brown- 

 ish below, somewhat ashy on head, gray on greater wing-coverts. Canary Islands, etc. ; has 

 once occurred in Greenland (or Labrador). (Pr. PhUa. Aead., 1866, p. 158 ; Zool., 1881, p. 

 378.) Egg white, 1.60 to 1.75 by 1.20, laid in rocky burrows; young covered with sooty 

 down. 



Obs. There is a Jamaican species, (E. earribaa N., which should fly to N. Am. some 

 time. 

 335. HALOCYPTE'NA. (Gr. SKs, hals, the sea, aKvs, okus, swift, irTtivos, ptenos, winged.) 

 Pygmy Petrel. Like a miniature (Estrelata or Pterodroma; unicolor, fuliginous. Bill much 

 shorter than head, about i the tarsus, weak and slender, acutely hooked ; nasal tubes as in 

 Procellaa-ia proper. Wings folding beyond tail, 2d primary longest, 3d nearly equal, 1st 

 about equal to 4th. Tibia briefly bare below ; tarsus little longer than middle toe and claw ; 

 outer toe without claw as long as middle ; tip of inner claw reaching base of middle ; hallux 

 minute; webs moderately fuU; claws compressed, curved, acute. Tail rather long, wedge^ 

 shaped ; central feathers projecting ; lateral regularly graduated, narrowly rounded. One species. 



821. H. mlcroso'ma. (Gr. iiixpos, rmhros, small ; a-aita, soma, body.) Least Petrel. Plumage 

 lustrous brownish-black, darker above, blackening on wings and tail, browning on under parts, 

 graying on greater wing-coverts and inner quills ; bill and feet black ; no white anywhere. 

 Length 5.75; wing 4.75; taU 2.50, graduated 0.35; bill 0.50; gape 0.62; height at base 

 0.19, width 0.21; nasal tube 0.22; tibia bare 0.30; tarsus 0.90; middle toe and claw 0.82 • 

 outer do. 0.80 ; inner do. 0.68. A queer little bird, from the coast of Lower Cala. 



326. PBOCEIXA'RIA. (Lat. procella, a tempest.) Stormy Petrels ; " Mother Carey's 

 Chickens." Diminutive, fuliginous, with white. Bill small, short, compressed, sides rapidly 



