866 THE PACIFIC FrLAIAR. 



blue aiul white, ur hluisli s(iiil\ |iluniaL;e: pelagic habits; st( niter hiU and more 

 robust proportions (es])ecianv of head) as ccjnipared witli Shearwaters. 



Nesting. — Docs not breed in \\'asliin_t;ton. Eycj: single, white, rough, nearly 

 equal-ended, laid on ledge or in cranny nf elilT. under rock, etc. .\\. size, 2.90 x 



2.00 {JT," X 50.8). 



General Range. — The North I'acilic. breeding on the islands bounding lier- 

 ing Sea: south in winter on the .Vnierican side to Mexico. 



)cciirrence ot't western coast, 

 -ov. W. T. 1884 (1885), 

 Xo. 1. ( l8()0), 1). 1,^0. 



Specimens. — I 'n )V. 



ing Sea: south in winter on the -\nierican side to Mexico. 

 Range in Washington. — I'robalily of regular occiirre 

 Authorities. — ["Pacific fulmar," Johnson. i\ep. C.ov. 



23.] Chapman, Hull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., \ol. III., Xo. 

 Specimens. — I 'n )V. 



.\UTHO we li;t\e hut mie authentic record of the capture of this species 

 in \\'a.shington we have e\'ery reason to believe that it is of regular and 

 abundant occurrence off rmr west shore. I^\i]niars are hatched by countless 

 thousands in the rookeries of Bering Sea: and they spread southward over 

 the north Pacific, being limited, rather than directed, by the himl barriers on 

 either side. Tlie nieagerness of our inforiiiation therefore cannot argne the 

 scarcitv of this species but is sini]il\ on a ])ar witli that generiil ignorance 

 which has until recently prevailed on :ill sides with regard to our "neglected 

 coast." 



Of tlie bird's occurrence on the Conimander Islands, Stejneger writes" : 

 "The "(ilupiscb' is one of the coniinonest suniiiier visitors to the islands, and 

 breeds in enornious iiuinl)ers 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 sjient hours under their rookeries listening to their w hinnying voice 

 and watching their high and elegant flight in sailing out and in and .iround the 

 cracked rocks like bees at an immense bee hi\e." 



And Mr. Anthonv. stud\ ing the luilmars ten miles out fiMin I'oint Loma, 

 Cal., sav.s'': "They are hardly what one would call gregarious, allho several 

 are often seen in company flying along in a loose straggling flock. .More often 

 they are seen in flocks of Piijfiiiiis i/ariii [now ofylstlioiiichis]. one or two in a 

 flock of fiftv v*-^liearwaters. I'nlike the Shearw:iters. however, they seldoiu 

 pass a craft without turning aside to at least make a circuit about it before 

 flying on. If the vessel is a fishing sloop sounding on the banks the chances 

 are in fa\-or of the Shearwaters being forgotten and allowe<l to disappear in 

 the distance, while the Fulmar settles lightly down on the water within a tew 

 yards of the fisherman. The next Fulmar that passes will, after having made 

 the regulation circuit, join the first, until within a few minutes a flock of six 

 or eight of these mo.st graceful and handsome Petrels have collected, dancing 

 about on the waves as light and buoyant as corks. * * * 



a. Bull. I'. S. Katl. Miis. No. ;g. p. o.s. 



b. "The .\lik." \V.I. XII.. .^p^., iSgs. p. loi f. 



