OCEANITES OCEANICUS. 



flanks, adjoining the white upper tail-coverts ; under tail-coverts sooty-brown, the 

 lateral ones white, some of them brown internally ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 like the breast, the greater series and the quill-Hning a little greyer ; " bill 

 entirely black ; feet and toes black, the webs black at the outer border, and black 

 also along the sides of the outer digits, but otherwise bright orange from the base of the 

 first phalange to a point level with the second phalange ; claws black ; iris dark brown " 

 (E. A. Wilson). Total length, about 7.5 inches ; culmen, 0.6 ; wing, 6.0 ; tail, 2.6 ; 

 tarsus, 1.4 ; middle toe and claw, 1.2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length, 7.5 inches ; wing, 6.2 ; 

 tarsus, 1.35. 



Nestlings. " Covered with a uniform greyish-black down ; bill black ; legs bluish, 

 tinged with faint yellow, webs of toes bright yellow ; toes faint black ; nails black " 

 (Robert Hall). 



The descriptions are taken from a pair of birds in the Gerrit Miller Collection in 

 the British Museum, procured at Provincetown, Mass., on 17th August, 1891. The bird 

 figured in the Plate is a male procured by myself at sea, about thirty miles west of 

 Fayal. 



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