LARIDS. 621 
tinged with straw-yellow; back, tertials, wing- and 
tail-coverts brownish grey; primaries and _ tail- 
feathers almost black; chin, throat and upper part 
of the belly white; lower part of the belly and 
under tail-coverts light brownish grey; legs, toes 
and webs black. In Mr. Sanford’s specimen the 
head appears to be dark dusky brown, rather than 
black, as stated by Yarrell, and the tail is not so 
dark as the primary quills. The young bird of the 
year, according to a description in the ‘ Zoologist’ 
for 1864 (p. 9365) of an immature male killed at 
Flamborough Head, in the beginning of September, 
is sooty black throughout, with a shght shade of 
brown in some lights; the shafts of the primaries 
white; the legs, toes and webs inky black. 
The egg is said to be of a pale green colour, 
spotted with ash-grey and dark reddish brown.* 
Fuimar Perren, Procellaria glacialis. ‘This com- 
panion of the whale-fisher is only a rare autumnal 
visitor to our coast: the only notice I know of its 
occurrence in this county is from the pen of the 
Rev. Murray A. Mathew, in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 
1869 (Second Series, p. 1644), in a paper on “ The 
Slaughter of Sea-fowl at Weston-super-Mare.” After 
giving an account of the slaughter of various Gulls 
by the fishermen of those parts, he says, ‘“‘ Another 
fisherman shot an old Fulmar, not a common visitor 
* Yarrell, vol. 111, p. 637. 
