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Identifier: handbooktobirdso04shar (find matches)
Title: Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, 1847-1909
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, Allen
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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is always distinctly forked, and, further-more, the tarsus is shorter and never exceeds the length of themiddle toe and claw. Twelve species of Oceanodroma are known, and the genus isfound all over the tropics. L THE FORK-TAILED STORM-PETREL. OCEANODROMALEUCORRHOA. Procellaria leucorrhoa^ Vieill. N. Diet. dHist. Nat. xxv. p. 422 (1817); B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 196 (1883).Thalassidroma kachi^ Macgill. Brit. B. v. p. 451 (1852).Thalassidroma leucorrhoa, Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 497 pi. 613 (1874).Cyniochorea leucorrhoa^ Saunders, ed. Yarrells Brit. B. iv. p. 392 (1884).Procellaria leachi, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 443 (18S5).Oceafiodro/iia lejicorrhoa,^^iundiQrs, Man. Brit. B. p. 725 (1889); Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p 348 (1896). (Plate CXIb.) Adult Male.—General colour above sooty-black, with moreor less of an ashy or slaty-grey shade, especially on the head ; * Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey speaks of the Petrel hatching her threewhite eggs ! (Cf. Tude, Ibis., 1891, p. 11.)
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FORK-TAILED STORM-PETREL. I4I tlie scapulars with whity-brown tips; lateral feathers of rumpand upper tail-coverts white ; lesser wing-coverts sooty-blacklike the back ; median and greater coverts smoky-brown,the inner greater coverts edged with whity-brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the inner secondariesedged with whity-brown at the ends; tail-feathers black, thecentre ones rather browner; crown of head like the back,the forehead and lores rather clearer ashy, like the cheeksand throat : feathers round eye, sides of face, and ear-covertssooty-black, like the sides of the neck; throat ratherlighter ashy than the remainder of the under surface ofbody, which is blackish-chocolate, somewhat lighter brown onthe under tail-coverts, the sides of the vent being white;under wing-coverts and axillaries dark chocolate-brown; quillsbelow black; bill, legs, feet, and claws, black ; iris dark hazel.Total length, 8 inches; culmen, 0-65; wing, 6-o ; tail, 3*0;tarsus, o9. Adul

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  • booksubject:Birds____Great_Britain
  • bookpublisher:London__Allen
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