Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Order III

Tubinares. - ALBATROSSES, PETRELS, and FULMARS. b 3 Bill hawklike, the tip of the upper mandible generally much enlarged; nostrils opening through tubes; hind toe reduced to a mere nail, and sometimes entirely wanting.

A. Size very large, nostrils separated and on either side of the bill. Family Diomedeida: ALBATROSSES (Fig. 9, α), p. 86.

B. Size smaller, nostrils joined and placed on top of the bill. Family Procellariidæ: PETRELS, FULMARS, and SHEARWATERS (Fig. 9, b), p. 86. 3 3 KEY TO FAMILIES.

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