12 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Eastern portion of the North Atlantic Ocean and central and 

 western portions of the Pacific from Japan and China to the Marquesas 

 Islands. Breeds on the Azores, Salvages, Madeira, and Canary islands, and 

 on various islands in the North Pacific; Bonin and Volcano islands, Laysan, 

 Necker, Nihoa Island, French Frigate Shoals, and Johnston Islands. Acciden- 

 tal in Greenland ' (or Labrador) and England. 



Genus FULMARUS Stephens. 



Fulmarus "Leach," Stephens, in Shaw, General Zoology, XIII, Pt. i, Feb. 

 18, 1826, 233. Type, by subs, desig., Procellaria glacialis Linnaeus 

 (Gray, 1855). [Cf. op. 62, Internat. Comm. Zool. Nomencl.] 



Fulmarus glacialis glacialis (Linnaeus). Atlantic Fulmar. [86.] 



Procellaria glacialis Linnaeus, Fauna Suecica, ed. 2, 1761, 51. (in mari 

 septentr. intra circulum arcticum = Spitzbergen.) 



Range. — North Atlantic, breeding from northern Greenland to Cumber- 

 land Sound and east at least to Franz Josef Land; ranges north to lat. 85°, west 

 to Melville Island and south to Scotland, Ireland, and Iceland. Winters south 

 of the Arctic Circle to the fishing banks off Newfoundland and to Georges 

 Bank off Massachusetts. Casual in Ontario, Connecticut, and New Jersey; 

 accidental on the Baltic Sea and in Madeira. 



Fulmarus glacialis rodgersi Cassin. Pacific Fulmar. [86.1.] 



Fulmarus Rodgersii Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XIV] 1862, 

 Nos. 7-9, July-Sept. [Oct. 28], 326. (South Indian Ocean = North 

 Pacific.) 



Range. — Breeds on islands in Bering Sea (Pribilof, St. Matthew, Hall, and 

 St. Lawrence), in the neighboring Arctic Ocean (Wrangel and Herald), and 

 from the Kurile and Commander islands to East Cape, Siberia. Winters 

 from the Aleutian Islands to Lower California and Japan. ^ 



Genus DAPTION Stephens. 



Daption Stephens, in Shaw, General Zoology, XIII, Pt. i, Feb. 18, 1826, 

 239. Type, by orig. desig., Procellaria capensis Linnaeus. 



1 Specimen in Leyden Museum, cf. Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, VI, Procell., 9; 

 also Bent, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 121, 1£22, 121. 



2 Fulmarus g. glupischa Stejneger is considered inseparable. 



