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Genus PELAGODROMA. 

 Pelagodroma, Reichenb. Natiiii. Syst. Vogel, p. iv. Type Procellaria marina (1852). 



This genus contains only one species, full particulars of the range of which are given in the 

 following pages. 



Pelagodroma marina has the bill as in Procellaria ; wings long, but rather broader than in 

 that genus, the first primary considerably shorter than the third, the third and fourth longest ; 

 secondaries ten in number ; tail slightly forked ; legs long, the tarsus anteriorly non-scutellate ; 

 toes long ; claws wide and flattened ; hind toe obsolete. 



