60 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
abundance on the high cliffs and promontories rising from the 
sea. The eggs are dull white. (Ve/son.) 
86c. Rodger’s Fulmar. 
Fulmarus glacialis rodgerstt (CASS.) COUES. 1872. 
All of the Behring Sea islands situated off shore and north of 
the Aleutian Islands are frequented by this form during the 
breeding season; it was common to the north of the Aleutian 
Islands and about the Prybiloff Islands in the summer of 1877; 
in the summer of 1881 it was very numerous in Behring 
Strait, and it was also found at St. Lawrence Island. (JVe/son.) 
BREEDING Notes.—This species repairs to the cliffs, especially 
on the south and east shores of St. George Island in Behring 
Sea. It comes early in the season and selects some rocky shelf, 
secure from all enemies, save man, where, making no nest what- 
ever, but squatting on the bare rock itself, it lays a single large, 
white oblong oval egg and immediately commences the duty 
and the labour of incubation. It is of all the water-fowl the 
most devoted to its charge, for it will not be scared from the egg 
by any demonstrations that may be made in the way of throwing 
rocks or yelling, and it will even die as it sits rather than take 
to flight, as I have frequently witnessed. The fulmar lays from 
the Ist to the 5th of June. The egg is very palatable, fully equal 
to that of our domestic duck, indeed it is somewhat like it. 
(Elhott.) 
XXXII. PUFFINUS Brisson. 1760. 
89. Greater Shearwater. 
Puffinus gravis (O’RiELLY) SALVIN. 1896. 
Marked by Holbcell and Reinhardt as breeding in the southern 
part of Greenland. (Arc¢. Man.) Abundant from Belle Isle to 
Resolution Island. (Awmelin.) Rather common on the west 
coast of Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Met with off the shores of Nova 
Scotia; not seen in the Gulf. (Svews¢er.) A winter visitor off 
New Brunswick. (Dr. Adams.) Specimen taken on the coast of 
Labrador, 1872. (Dzonne.) 
90. Manx Shearwater. 
Puffinus puffinus (BRUNN.) LicHTS 1854 
One skin received from Greenland. (Avrct. Man.) Common from 
Belle Isle to Grinnell Bay. (Awmelin.) Tolerably common on 
