Capt. SABINE’s Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, $c. 553 
25. PRocELLARIA GLACIALIS. Fulmar Petrel, 
P. glacialis. Gmel. i. 562. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 823. Faun. Suec. 51. Temm. 518. 
Brün. no. 118. Fabr. 86. Müll. no. 144—Fulmar Petrel. Lath. Syn. vi. 403. 
Arct. Zool. ii. 534. Br. Zool. ii. 203.—Fulmar. Mont. Dict. & Supp. 
These birds are very abundant at all times in Baffin's Bay and 
Davis's Straits; the greater part in the plumage described by 
authors generally: but some were occasionally seen in which the 
whole under parts as well as the head and neck were ash-coloured, 
. instead of white; and the back and wings of a darker shade: 
these latter birds agree with the plumage which Temminck has 
assigned to the young birds; if they were such, the species is two 
years in attaining maturity, because we killed full-plumaged birds 
of this character in June; the difference cannot be sexual, as 
males and females in each colour were obtained. 
Whilst the ships were detained by the ice in Jacob's Bay in 
latitude 71°, from the 24th of June to the 3d of July, Fulmars 
were passing in a continual stream to the northward, in numbers 
inferior only to the flight of the passenger pigeon in America. 
Latham appears to have been in error in his Synopsis in re- 
ferring to Brünnich as an authority for the tail of this species 
being black: we did not see any birds so marked. 
26. Anas SPECTABILIS. King Duck. 
Anas Spectabilis. Gmel. i. 507. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 845. Faun. Suec. 39. Müll. 
no. 108. Fabr.63.—King Duck. Arct. Zool. ii. 554. Lath. Syn. vi. 473. Br. Zool. ii. 
246. Mont. Dict. & App. 
I am indebted to Mr. Skane! midshipman of the Isabella, for 
the only male specimen of this most beautiful Duck, which was 
shot during our voyage. They were very numerous on the coast 
of Greenland in company with the Eider Ducks; but they were 
too shy to approach the ships, and opportunities of seeking them 
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