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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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ble with the nostrils dorsal forming atube on its ridge at the base, on which the dorsal line is concave and ascend-ing, then abrupt, afterwards, for a short space, straight, and lastly decurved,the sides separated by a groove, convex, the edges sharp and inflected, thetip decurved, slender, acute; lower mandible with the angle rather long,narrow, and pointed, the dorsal line beyond it decurved, the sides erect, theedges sharp, the tip decurved, acute. Head of moderate size, roundedabove; neck short; body rather slender. Feet rather long, slender; tibiabare at its lower part; tarsus slender, reticulate; hind toe minute, with aconical deflected claw; anterior toes of moderate length, slender, scutellate,webbed, the third and fourth about equal. Claws slender, arched, com-pressed, acute. Plumage very soft and blended, the feathers distinct onlyon the wings, which are very long, with the primaries a little incurvedtoward the end, the second longest, the first and fourth about equal; tail
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8 FORKED-TAILED PETREL. 219 emarginate or even, of twelve feathers. Tongue much flattened, taperingto a horny point; oesophagus wide, within the thorax enormously distended,and with the proventriculus forming an ovate sac, which is recurved; stomachvery small; intestine short, of moderate width; cceca small; cloaca globular. LEACHS PETREL.—FORKED-TAILED PETREL. -Thalassidroma Leachii, Tem-m.PLATE CCCCLIX.—Male and Female. Before describing the habits of this bird, I think it necessary to speak ofthe three distinct species which are at times found near our coasts, and ofwhich I have found two breeding within the Union. The present species isthe largest; that named after Wilson the next in size; and the one calledthe Stormy Petrel the least. Until I had met with the whole of thesespecies near our coast, I, like others, thought that the last mentioned keptnearer to Europe than it in reality does at certain seasons. In August 1831, I was on board of the American packet-ship Columbia,c

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