Capt. Sabinv/s Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, cj-c. 553 

 25. Procellauia Glacialis. Fulmar Petrel. 



P. glacialis. Gmel. i. 562. Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. 823. Faun. Suec. 51. Temm. 518. 

 Briiii. no. 118. Fabr. 86. Miill. no. 144. — Fulmar Petrel. Lath. Si/n. vi. 403. 

 Jrcl. Zool. ii. 534. Br. Zool. ii. 203.— Fulmar. Mont. Diet. S; Siipp. 



These birds are very abundant at all times in Baffin's Bay and 

 Davis's Straits ; the greater part in the plumage described by 

 authors generally : but some were occasionally seen in which the 

 whole under parts as well as the head and neck were ash-coloured, 

 instead of white; and the back and wings of a darker shade: 

 these latter birds agree with the plumage which Temminck has 

 assigned to the young birds; if they were such, the species is two 

 years in attaining maturity, because we killed full-plumaged birds 

 of this character in June; the difference cannot be sexual, as 

 males and females in each colour were obtained. 



Whilst the ships were detained by the ice in Jacob's Bay in 

 latitude 71", from the 24th of June to the 3d of July, Fulmars 

 were passing in a continual stream to the northward, in numbers 

 inferior only to the flight of the passenger pigeon in America. 



Latham appears to have been in error in his Syjiopsis in re- 

 ferring to Briinnich as an authority for the tail of this species 

 being black: we did not see any birds so marked. 



26. Anas Spectabilis. King Duck. 



Anas Spectabilis. Gmel. i. 507. Lath. Ltd. Orn. ii. 845. Faun. Suec. 39. Mi'i/l. 

 110.108. Fabr. 63. — King Duck, .^rc^ 2oo/.ii. 554. Lath.Syn.y\.A'!S. Br. Zool. u. 

 246. Mont. Diet. <5r App. 



I am indebted to Mr. Skene, midshipman of the Isabella, for 

 the only male specimen of this most beautiful Duck, which was 

 shot during our voyage. They were very numerous on the coast 

 of Greenland in company with the Eider Ducks; but they were 

 too shy to approach the ships, and opportunities of seeking them 



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