866 THE PACIFIC FULMAR. 
blue and white, or bluish sooty plumage; pelagic habits; stouter bill and more 
robust proportions (especially of head) as compared with Shearwaters. 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Washington. Egg: single, white, rough, nearly 
equal-ended, laid on ledge or in cranny of cliff, under rock, ete. Av. size, 2.90 x 
2.00 (73.7 x 50.8). 
General Range.—The North Pacific, breeding on the islands bounding Ber- 
ing Sea; south in winter on the American side to Mexico. 
Range in Washington.—Probably of regular occurrence off western coast. 
Authorities.—[‘Pacific fulmar,” Johnson, Rep. Gov. W. T. 1884 (1885), 
23.] Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. IIL, No. I. (1890), p. 130. 
Specimens. |’rovy. ‘ 
ALTHO we have but one authentic record of the capture of this species 
in Washington we have every reason to believe that it is of regular and 
abundant occurrence off our west shore. Fulmars are hatched by countless 
thousands in the rookeries of Bering Sea; and they spread southward over 
the north Pacific, being limited, rather than directed, by the land barriers on 
either side. The meagerness of our information therefore cannot argue the 
scarcity of this species but is simply on a par with that general ignorance 
‘which has until recently prevailed on all sides with regard to our “neglected 
coast.” 
Of the bird’s occurrence on the Commander Islands, Stejneger writes* : 
“The ‘Glupisch’ is one of the commonest summer visitors to- the islands, and 
breeds in enormous numbers in suitable places, that is to say, in high and steep 
rocky bluffs and promontories boldly rising out of the sea 300 to 800 feet high, 
and I have spent hours under their rookeries listening to their whinnying voice 
and watching their high and elegant flight in sailing out and in and around the 
cracked rocks like bees at an immense bee hive.” 
And Mr. Anthony, studying the Fulmars ten miles out from Point Loma, 
Cal., says®: “They are hardly what one would call gregarious, altho several 
are often seen in company flying along in a loose straggling flock. More often 
they are seen in flocks of Puffinus gavia [now opisthomelas], one or two ina 
flock of fifty Shearwaters. Unlike the Shearwaters, however, they seldom 
pass a craft without turning aside to at least make a circuit about it before 
flying on. If the vessel is a fishing sloop sounding on the banks the chances 
are in favor of the Shearwaters being forgotten and allowed to disappear in 
the distance, while the Fulmar settles lightly down on the water within a few 
yards of the fisherman. The next Fulmar that passes will, after having made 
the regulation circuit, join the first, until within a few minutes a flock of six 
or eight of these most graceful and handsome Petrels have collected, dancing 
about on the waves as light and buoyant as corks. * * * 
a. Bull. U. S. Nath Mus, No, 20, p. os. 
b. “The Auk,” Vol. XI, Apr., 1805, p. 108 f. 
