ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



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No. 92909.— Iris dark brown. Bill whitish, tinged -with flesb-color and without dusky on the sutures; 

 nail tinged faintly with yellowish. Feet very light and pure whitish flesh-color, without any trace 

 of du.sky above or below, and without trace of any bluish or greenish tinge ; joints more reddish ; 

 nails light horny brownish. * 



No. 891.38. — Iris dark brown. Bill greenish white, with the sutures and the space between the nostril 

 and the nail, as also the tip of the latter, blackish. Feet dirty white with a faint greenish blue tinge : 

 the joints and the outside of the tarsus, as also the webs, except the base, blackish ; tarsus behind 

 and toes below black. 



No. 92910.— Bill whitish with a faint tinge of greenish blue and yellowish, here and there with a 

 light rosy shade : sutures and terminal part of nail blackish. Feet whitish with a taint greenish 

 tinge; webs of the same color, their outer edge being narrowly bordered by black ; along hind side of 

 tarsus and under side of toes only trace of blackish. 



No. 92911.— Ills dark brown. Bill exactly as the colored drawing of No. 2008 (the foregoing, pi. vi, 

 fig. 12), only that the dusky on the lower mandible forms a continuous line between the nail and the 

 malar apex. Feet whitish wilh a wash of bluish flesh-color, with brownish on the joints, and the fore 

 border of the webs blackish ; tarsus behind and toes below dark brownish gray. Very fat. 



The "Glupisch"is one of the commonest summer visitors to the 

 islands, and breeds in enormous numbers in suitable places, that is to 

 say, in high and steep rocky bluffs and promontories boldly rising out 

 of the sea 300 to 800 feet high, and I have spent hours under their rook- 

 eries listening to their whinnying voice and watching their high and 

 elegant flight in sailing out and in and around the cracked rocks like 

 bees at an immense bee-hive. I have mentioned above that nearly all 

 the birds belonged to the dark phase, and that only a very small per- 

 centage of white birds breed, apart from the dark ones, on Copper Island. 



The Fulmar is the first one of the non-resident water-birds to arrive 

 at the rookeries in early spring, usnally in March, the order of arrival 

 being Fuhnarus, Uria arra, Lunda eirrliata, Fratercula cornicidata. One 

 specimen of the white form was obtained on Bering Island, February 

 7, which would indicate that the advance guard had already reached 

 the islands by that time, or else, what I am rather inclined to believe, 

 that many of the birds pass the winter on the open ocean not so very 

 far from the shores they inhabit in summer. 



The eggs are dull white without spots, measuring as follows : 



Locality. 



Copper Island July 12, 1883 



do July 12, 1883 



do July 13,1883 



do I July 13,1883 



do [ July 13,1883 



Trim,. 



75 



71.5 



71.5 



68 



71.5 



trim. 

 49 

 48.5 

 51 

 50 

 48.5 



These eggs all belonged to birds of the dark phase. 



