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Genus OCEANITES Keys. ann BLas. 
OCEANITES OCEANICUS (Azwh/). 
Wilson’s Petrel. Mother Cary’s Chicken. 
Adult: General plumage dark brown; wing coverts edged with pale brown; part of upper 
tail coverts white ; tail black; bill black; legs and feet black; yellow spots on the webs between 
the toes. 
Length, 7; Wing, 5.60; Tail, 2.45; Tarsus, 1.25; Bill, 60. 
Common off the Atlantic coast in summer. It ranges throughout the 
‘¢ North and South Atlantic and Southern Oceans.” (A.0.U.) 
Genus CYMODROMA Ripew.y. 
‘CYMODROMA GRALLARIA ( /7ei//.). 
White-bellied Petrel. 
Upper parts dusky, under parts white. 
“ Throat usually with only concealed white and without white on the hind neck.” 
Length, 8; Wing, 6.25; Tail, 3.10; Tarsus, 1.50. 
‘¢ Intertropical seas, north casually to coast of Florida.” 
(Ridgway, Man. .V. A. Birds, p. 72.) 
