Fulmars and Shearwaters 



86. Fulmar (Fulmaihs glacialis). L. 19; W. 13; B. 

 1.5. Ads. Light phase. Head, neck, and under parts 

 white; back, wings, and tail slaty gray. Dark phase. 

 Uniform dark slaty ;ray. Notes. Silent. 



Range —North Atlantic, breeds from Lat. 69 northward; winters 

 south to Lat. of Massachusetts, and rarely to Virginia. 



86b. Pacific Fulmar (F. g. glupischa). Similar to 

 No. 86, but nasal tubes light. 



Range. — North Pacific; breeds from Ber'ng Sea north; winters 

 south to Mexico. 



86.1. Rodger Fulmar [Fulmarus rodgersii). Sim- 

 ilar to light phase of No. 86, but back with white 

 .gathers; no dark phase. 



Range. — "Bering Sea and adjacent parts of North Pacific." 

 A. O. U.J 



87. Slender-billed Fulmar (Priocella glacialoides^. L. 

 '8.5. Ads. Head and underparts white; back ind tail 

 pearl; primaries black, white on inner web. 



Range. — Southern Seas; north on Pacific coast to Washington. 



94. Sooty Shearwater [Puffinus Juliginosus). L. 17. 



Ads. Sooty gray, lighter below. 



Range. — "Atlantic Ocean, breeding in the southern hemisphere; a 

 summer visitor off our coast, from South Carolina northward." (A. 

 O. U.) 



95. Dark-bodied Shearwater [Puffinus griseus). L. 

 17. Ads. Above dusky black or brownish, paler be- 

 low; under wing coverts white and dusky; bill black. 



Range. — South Pacific; north In summer on the American coast to 

 California. 



96.1. Wedge-1ailed Shearwater {Puffinus cuneatus). 

 L. 17. T. 5.4, pointed. Ads. Above brown; below white; 

 sides of neck mottled v ith gray; middle tail feathers 

 nearly 2. longer than lateral ones. (Cat. B. M.) 



Range. — "North Pacific Oc»in, from the Hawaiian Islands north 

 to the Bonin Group and Lo-ver California." (A. O. U.) 



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