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the rami of the mandible are weak, the nasal tube being 
smaller, narrower,^ and lower at the base, less than the width of 
the latericorn. The tarsi are more slender than in Fulmarus. 
One species only is known, which is universally distributed 
over the southern oceans. 
I. THE CAPE FULMAR. DAPTION CAPENSIS. 
Procellaria capensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 213 (1766). 
DapUon capensis, More, Ibis., 1882, p. 346; B. O. U. List. 
Brit. B. p. 199 (1883); Seebohm, Brit. B. iii. p. 451 
(1885); Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 714, note (1889); 
Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 428 (1886). 
Dap Hon capense, Saunders, ed. Yarrell’s Brit. B. iv. p. ii (1884). 
Adult Male.— General colour above slaty-black, varied with 
white ; the feathers grey at the base, but white sub-terminally, 
the feathers of the back with a triangular mark of slaty-black 
at the tip ; scapulars like the back and marked in the same 
manner ; lesser wing-coverts blackish-brown, the remainder 
brown, white at the base, and narrowly edged with white on 
the outer web, the inner greater-coverts pure white, some of 
them being brown at the end; primary-coverts and quills 
brown, white towards the base of the inner web ; tail white, 
with a broad brown tip ; sides of face like the crown ; a small 
white spot below the eye ; upper throat brown, with concealed 
white bases to the feathers ; lower throat and sides of neck 
with brown ends to the feathers ; remainder of under surface 
of body pure w-hite, the under tail-coverts white, with brown 
tips ; under wing-coverts and axillaries w’hite, the lower greater- 
coverts tipped with brown ; the coverts along the edge of the 
w'ing blackish-brown ; bill blackish-brown ; feet dark brown ; 
Total length, 15-5 inches; culmen, 1-35 ; wing, 10-5 ; tail, 4-0; 
tarsus, 17. 
Adult Female.— Similar to the male. Total length, 14-5 
inches; wing, io‘2. 
Young- Birds. — Are apparently less spotted with white on the 
back ; and have a more uniform brown throat- 
