FULMAR PETREL. 



(Procellaria glacialis, Lixn. Lath. Ind. ii. p. 823. sp. 9. Temm. 

 Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 802. Bonap. Synops. No. 310. Fulmar Petrel, 

 Lath. Penn. Brit. Zool. p. 145. t. M. fig. 1. et Arct. Zool. ii. p. 

 250. No. 461. P6trel de I'isle de St. Kilda, Buff. PI. Enlum. 

 59.) 



Sp. Charact. — White; back and wings bluish-grey; tail cunei- 

 form ; bill and feet yellow. — Young, pale cinereous, varied with 

 brown ; bill and feet yellowish-grey. 



Surrounded by an eternal winter the Petrel dwells nearly 

 at all seasons of the year upon the Arctic Seas, 



Where undissolving, from the first of time. 

 Snows swell on snows amazing to the sky ; 

 And icy mountains high on mountains pil'd. 

 Seem to the shivering sailor from afar, 

 Shapeless and white, an atmosphere of clouds 

 Projected huge, and horrid o'er the surf. 



Harbingers of storm and danger, they choose the wildest 

 and most desolate of regions, where congregating amidst 



