. Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature . Fig. 26. Order III. Tubinares.—Albatrosses, Petrels, and Fulmars. Gray, sooty, or black and white soa-birds; living, except when nesting,well off shore; flying low, often skinmiing the waves. Nostril-openingstubelikc; bill hawkhke, its hook often prominent; front-toes webbed,hind-toe small or absent; wings long and pointed; tail short. A. Size very large, nostril-tubes separated, on sich^s of bill (Fig. 20, a). . Family Diomedeidce: Albatrosses, p. 172. B. Size smaller, nostril-tubes join
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. Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature . Fig. 26. Order III. Tubinares.—Albatrosses, Petrels, and Fulmars. Gray, sooty, or black and white soa-birds; living, except when nesting, well off shore; flying low, often skinmiing the waves. Nostril-openingstubelikc; bill hawkhke, its hook often prominent; front-toes webbed, hind-toe small or absent; wings long and pointed; tail short. A. Size very large, nostril-tubes separated, on sich^s of bill (Fig. 20, a). . Family Diomedeidce: Albatrosses, p. 172. B. Size smaller, nostril-tubes joined on top of bill (Fig. 26, 6). . Fsimily Procellariidae: Petrels, Fulmar3, Shearwaters, p. 173. 120 KEY TO FAMILIES