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FULMAR. 



WHITE HAGDON. NODDY. 

 FULMARIS GLACIALIS. 



Char. Mantle and tail bluish gray; wings dusky; head, neck, and 

 under parts white; bill greenish yellow; legs and feet pale flesh-color. 

 Length about 19 inches. Numerous examples, supposed to be immature 

 birds, have the white portions clouded with gray, and the mantle tinged 

 with brown. 



Nest. A deep hollow scratched in the soil on a grassy shelf of a cliff; 

 sometimes on a bare rock, — usually a thin cushion of grass or moss ; 

 often the egg is laid on the soil. 



Egg. I ; white, with a rough, chalk-like surface, sometimes with a few 

 spots of reddish brown ; average size 2.90 X 2.00. 



Surrounded by an eternal winter, the Fulmars dwell nearly 

 at all seasons of the year upon the Arctic seas. Harbingers 

 of storm and danger, they choose the wildest and most deso- 

 late of regions, where, congregating amidst the floating ice, they 



