THE, PACIFIC FULMAR. 865 
of the Straits. According to Fannin, the Short-tailed Albatross is “‘tolerably 
common on both coasts of Vancouver Island, but more abundant on the West 
Coast’; and he adds, “A few have been taken in the straits off Victoria 
Harbor.” 
Because of its pelagic habits and its remote breeding haunts little has 
been made available with reference to this species, so we may be permitted to 
present for comparison these words upon a better known species, the Wander- 
ing Albatross (D. exulans): ‘With outstretched motionless wings he sails 
over the surface of the sea, now rising high in the air, now with a bold sweep 
and wings inclined at an angle with the horizon, descending until the tip of 
the lower one almost touches the crests of the waves as he skims over them. 
Suddenly he sees something floating on the water and prepares to alight; but 
how changed he is now from the noble bird but a moment before all grace and 
symmetry. He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in; 
down drop two enormous webbed feet straddled out to their full extent, and 
with a hoarse croak, between the cry of a Raven and that of a sheep, he falls 
‘souse’ into the water. Here he is at home again, breasting the waves like 
a cork. Presently he stretches out his neck, and with great exertion of his 
wings runs along the water for seventy or eighty yards until at last, having 
got sufficient impetus, he tucks up his legs and is once more fairly launched 
into the air.’’ 
This inability to rise from a level surface, which is common to all the 
Albatrosses, is often taken advantage of by sailors who catch the birds by 
means of triangular pieces of tin baited with pork. Unable to disengage the 
tin from the angles of the beak, the struggling gooney is landed on board 
ship; and once there, escape is impossible without a greater running start than 
the ordinary deck affords. 
No. 349. 
PACIFIC: FUIEMAR.: 
A.O. U. No. 86b. Fulmarus glacialis glupischa Stejn. 
Synonyms.—G.upiscH (Russian name). Morty Mawk. 
Description.—4dult, light phase: Head and neck all around and underparts 
white; remaining upperparts ashy gray, darkening on quills. Adu/t, dark phase, 
and /mmature: Entire plumage sooty plumbeous. Bill yellow, tinged with green- 
ish; feet yellowish gray. Downy young: White. Length: 17.00-19.00 (431.8- 
482.6) ; wing about 12.00 (304.8) ; bill-1.55 (39.4), depth at base .70 (17.8). 
Recognition Marks.—Crow size but more naturally comparable to gull; ashy 
a. Hutton: Ibis, 1865, p. 281. 
