62 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
One specimen taken at Chemainus, Vancouver island, Novem- 
ber, 1895. (/annin.) This is the common fulmar of the North 
Pacific, and numbers of specimens have been obtained at Unalaska. 
(Velson.) Hundreds of thousands of these birds were seen off 
Unimak pass and the eastern end of Unalaska island, in fact, they 
covered acres of water; they are also numerous around many of 
the Aleutian islands. (7Zzrner.) 
BREEDING Notes.—This species breeds on the Commander 
islands, on the west side of Bering sea. It nests in the greatest 
abundance on the high cliffs and promontories rising from the 
sea. The eggs are dull white. (JVe/son.) 
86c. Rodgers Fulmar. 
Fulmarus glacials rodgersi (Cass.) COUES. 1872. 
All of the Bering 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 Privilof islands in the summer of 1877; in the summer 
of 1881 it was very numerous in Bering 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 Bering sea. 
It comes early in the season and selects some rocky shelf, secure 
from all enemies, save man, where, making no nests whatever, but 
squatting on the bare rock itself, it lays a single large, white ob- 
long-oval egg and immediately commences the duty and 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 demonstra- 
tions 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 
requently 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. (E//o?t.) 
XXXI. PUFFINUS Brisson. 1760. 
89. Greater Shearwater. 
Puffinus gravis (O’RIELLY) SALVIN. 1896. 
Common in large flocks off the shore of northeastern Labrador, 
(Bigelow.) Marked by Holbcell and Reinhardt as breeding in the 
