BIRDS OF THE OPEN SEA 19 
propitiating them with choice bits, in hope of averting dan- 
ger and winning good luck in their fishing. According 
to their belief, the whales drive the sardines into the bay 
to help the Chinese, but the albatross drives the whales. 
86 b. PACIFIC FULMAR. — Fulmarus glacialis glupischa. 
Famity: The Fulmars and Shearwaters. 
Length: 17.00-19.00. 
Light Phase: Head, neck, and under parts white; upper parts ashy 
gray ; primaries and secondaries dark gray-brown. 
Dark Phase; Uniform dusky gray above, ashy gray below. 
Geographical Distribution: North Pacific, south on the American coast 
to Mexico. 
Breeding Range : Islands of the Pacifie from the coast of British Colum- 
bia to Behring Sea. 
Breeding Season: June and July. 
Nest: In colonies on ledges and in crevices of steep promontories rising 
perpendicularly from the sea. 
Eggs: 13; chalky white. Size 2.85 1.90. 
Like all the Fulmars, this species is found on the 
open sea and rarely lands upon the coast. It has been 
recorded at Monterey, and occurs at most of the islands 
along the coast of California, Washington, Oregon, and 
British Columbia. It is very abundant at Santa Cata- 
lina in the fall and winter. 
Its common names are Goose, Gonie, Gluttonbird, 
Giant Petrel. Of these ‘‘ Gluttonbird ” seems to apply to 
this vulture of the sea. Its food consists of dead flesh, 
fish, or fowl, as the case may be, upon which it gorges 
until unable to fly. It is eminently a bird of the open 
sea, visiting the land seldom except in the breeding 
season, and usually not flying nearer the coast than five 
or ten miles. 
