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Bulweria

BULWERIA.

Tail wedge - shaped, 12 feathers ; nasal tubes fleshy at the end, openings separate and directed forwards and upwards.

Bulweria bulweri bulweri (Jardine and Selby).

9 Sooty brown throughout, greyish on chin, throat, and greater wing coverts. Bill black. Legs and feet greyish, except outer toe, which is black like webs. \Ving 198-207. Tarsus

27-29 (H.). Bill 22.

PreedS.—Madeira, Desertas, Porto Santo, Salvage Islands, Canary Islands, Azores, and in several places in N. Pacific Ocean. Is a rare visitor to W. European Coasts ; obtained five times in England and once on Greenland Coast.

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