A. Pankov, K. Pflueger On ground traveling waves for the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations (149K, Postscript) ABSTRACT. As a continuation of our previous work, we improve some results on convergence of periodic KP traveling waves to solitary ones as the period goes to infinity. In addition, we present some qualitative properties of such waves, as well as nonexistence results, in the case of general nonlinearity. We suggest here an approach which does not depend on any scaling argument.