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BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
FAM. PROCELLARIIDAV 
PETRELS. 
OCEANITES OCEANICA. (Eukl.) 
Wilson’s Petrel. 
Adult Male. — Entire plumage, dark brown; wing-coverts 
edged with w’hitish brown; upper tail-coverts, white; tail, black; 
bill, black ; toes with yellow spots on the webs ; iris, brown. 
Length 7, wing 5.64, tail 2.45, tarsus 1.25, bill .60. 
The Wilson’s Petrel becomes abundant a short distance off the 
coast, but I have never observed it very near the land. While 
cruising among the islands, numbers of these Petrels followed in 
the wake of the vessel, only leaving us upon our near approach to 
the shore. 
Fig. Aud. Bds. N. A., Vol. VII. pi. 460. 
PUFFINUS MAJOR. Faber. 
Greater Shearwater. 
Adult Male. — Dark brown, somewhat grayish on the head ; 
upper tail-coverts mostly white; below, white; lining of wings, white; 
tail, dark brown; crissum, dark; front of tarsi, dark, the rest pale. 
Length 18, wing 13, tail 5.75, tarsus 2, bill 2.40. 
