50 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



FAMILY PROGELLARIIDJE. FULMARS, SHEARWATERS, AND 

 PETRELS. 



SUBFAMILY FULMARIN.fi. FULMAKS. 

 [GENUS MACRONECTES RICHMOND. 



Macronectes RICHMOND, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVIII, 1905, 76. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Procellaria gigantea GMELIN. 



Macronectes giganteus (GMELIN). Giant Fulmar. [85.] 



Procellaria gigantea GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 563. (Probably 

 Falkland Islands and vicinity.) 



RANGE. Southern oceans, north to about latitude 30 S.; casual 

 off coast of Oregon.] 



GENUS FULMARUS STEPHENS. 



Fulmarus STEPHENS, General Zoology, XIII, Pt. i, 1826, 233. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Procellaria glacialis LINNAEUS (Gray, 1855). 



Fulmarus glacialis (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. 



a. Fulmarus glacialis glacialis (LINNAEUS). Fulmar. [86.] 



Procellaria glacialis LINNAEUS, Fauna Suecica, ed. 2, 1761, 51. (Spitz- 

 bergen? "intra circulum arcticum.") 



RANGE. North Atlantic. Breeds from northern Greenland to Cumber- 

 land Sound and east at least to Franz Josef Land; ranges north to latitude 

 85 and west to Melville Island; winters south of the Arctic Circle to the 

 fishing banks off Newfoundland and to George Bank off Massachusetts, 

 and casually to New Jersey. 



6. Fulmarus glacialis glupfscha STEJNEGER. Pacific Fulmar. [866.] 



Fulmarus glacialis glupischa STEJNEGER, Auk, I, July, 1884, 234. (North- 

 west coast of America.) 



