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stated, that from twenty tliousand to thirty thousand young 

 Fulmars are annually caught on the West Manna Islands. 



The Fulmar is found at Spitzbergen and Iceland. Mr. 

 Proctor observed that it was common at Grimsey Island. It 

 is found in the Greenland seas, at Davis' Straits, Baffin"'s 

 Bay, Hudson's Bay, and Newfoundland. 



In this country specimens have been procured on the coast 

 of Durham ; it has also been occasionally shot or caught in 

 Yarmouth Roads. A fine example is preserved in the Mu- 

 seum at Saffron Walden, Avhicli was obtained in Essex. It 

 has also been shot in Cornwall, and sometimes, but not often, 

 on the coast of Wales. 



On the other side of the Channel it has occurred on the 

 coast of Holland, Picardy, Brittany, and Dunkirk. 



In the adult bird the curved point of the bill is yellow, 

 the sides horny white, the superior ridge investing the nostrils 

 greyish-white ; irides straw yellow ; the whole head and the 

 neck all round pure white ; the back, all the wing-coverts, 

 secondaries, tertials, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers pearl 

 grey ; wing-primaries slate-grey ; breast, belly, and all the 

 under surface of the body pure white ; legs, toes, and their 

 membranes brownish-yellow ; the claws slender, but curved 

 and pointed. The whole length of an advdt male about 

 nineteen inches ; the wing, from the anterior bend, twelve 

 inches ; the middle toe and its claw longer than the tarsus. 



A young Fulmar in its second summer, probably twelve 

 or fourteen months old, has the tip of the bill yellow, the 

 other parts greyish horn colour ; head, neck, back, wings, 

 and tail nearly uniform ash-brown, but the surface of the 

 back and wings rather darker in colour ; chin, neck in front, 

 and all the under surface of the body also uniform ash-brown, 

 but rather paler in colour than the upper surface ; legs, toes, 

 and their membranes pale brown. 



