FULMAR, 153 



I. THE FULMAP. FULMARUS GLACIALIS. 



Procellaria ^lacialis^ Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 213 (1766). 

 Fidniarus glacialis, Macgill. Brit. K v. p. 429 ( 1(852); Dresser, 



B. Eur. viii. p. 535,' pi 617 (1878); B. O. U. List Brit. B. 



p. 199 (1883); Saunders, ed. Yaneli's Brit. B. iv. p. i 



(1884); Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 430 (1885); 



Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 711 (1889); Salvin, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 425 (1896). 



{Plate CXI.) 



Adult Male. — General colour above light grey, with obsolete 

 paler fringes to the feathers, the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 delicate pearly-grey ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard- 

 wing, ])rimary-coverts, and quills dusky greyish-black, the 

 shafts white, as also the inner web for two-thirds of its 

 breadth ; secondaries grey, like the back, the inner web white, 

 except at the end ; tail-feathers pearly grey, white on the inner 

 web, and at the tips ; head and neck all round, and entire 

 under surface of body pure white, with a little shade of grey 

 on the sides of the upper breast and on the lower flanks ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the wing 

 dusky-grey. " The curved point of the bill is yellow, the 

 sides buff-yellow, those of the upper mandibles being more or 

 less streaked with dark brown, the sheath investing the nostrils 

 almost black ; feet and legs bluish horn colour " {A. If. 

 Cocks). Total length, 18-5 inches; culmen, 1-65 ; wing, it'o; 

 tail, 4'i ; tarsus, 2*2. 



Adult Female. — Similar to the male. Total length, 17-5 

 inches ; wing, lyo. 



The Fulmar has also a dark phase, which is of a uniform 

 dusky grey colour, a little paler on the under surface of the 

 body. This is chiefly found in its more northern habitat, but 

 in many places both light and dark forms occur together. 



Characters. — In appearance the Fulmar is very like a grey 

 Gull, but it may be distinguished by its tubular nostrils. 

 There is no other British Petrel with which it can be con- 

 founded. 



