THE FRIGATE PETREL. THE FULMAR. 221 



Family FROCELLAR1ID/E. Subfamily OCEANITIN^. 



FRIGATE PETREL. 



Pelagodroma marina (L'VTH.) 



/^VRIGINALLY discovered during Captain Cook's first voyage, and procured 

 \^J in lat. 37 off the east coast of South America, this long-legged Petrel 

 breeds on the Salvage Islands, Cape Verde Islands, and off Cape Leewin, South- 

 west Australia. It ranges over the southern seas, and has occurred on the coast 

 of Massachusetts, as well as in Western Britain. In November, 1890, a Frigate 

 Petrel was washed up on Walney Island, and this I placed in the Carlisle 

 Museum. On January ist, 1897, a second specimen was caught alive on Colonsay, 

 and this Mr. W. Eagle Clarke secured for the Edinburgh Museum. The Frigate 

 Petrel has most of the upper parts slaty-brown, becoming paler and greyer on the 

 back ; rump and upper tail-coverts clear grey ; tail and wings brownish-black ; 

 forehead, an elongated superciliary stripe and lower parts pure white. Total 

 length about 8 inches; bill 0^9; tarsus r6. 



Family -PUFF1NIDAL. Subfamily FULMARINJE. 



FULMAR. 



Fuli/iarus glacialis (LlNN.) 



' I A HE Fulmar is one of the most characteristic of Arctic birds. It breeds 

 _L gregariously in Spitsbergen. Dr. Nansen met with it when he was 

 approaching Franz Josef Land over the ice from the North-east. Mr. W. S. 

 Bruce found a colony of Fulmars established at the east end of Mabel Island. 

 Messrs. Pearson found Fulmars on the coast of "Novaya Zemlya and Lutke's Land. 



