FULMAR PETREL. 623 



It is found in the Greenland Seas, at Davis's Straits, Baffin's 

 Bay, Hudson's Bay, and Newfoundland. 



In this country specimens have been procured on the 

 coast of Durham; it has also been occasionally shot or 

 caught in Yarmouth Roads. A fine example is preserved 

 in the Museum at Saffron Walden, which was obtained in 

 Essex. It has also been shot in Cornwall, and sometimes 

 but not often, on the coast of Wales. 



On the other side of the Channel it has occurred on the 

 coast of Holland, Picardy, Brittany, and Dunkirk. 



In the adult bird the curved point of the bill is yellow, 

 the sides horny white, the superior ridge investing the 

 nostrils grey ish- white ; irides straw yellow; the whole head 

 and the neck all round pure white ; the back, all the wing- 

 coverts, secondaries, tertials, upper tail-coverts, and tail- 

 feathers pearl grey ; wing-primaries slate grey ; breast, 

 belly, and all the under surface of the body pure white ; 

 legs, toes, and their membranes brownish-yellow ; the 

 claws slender, but curved and pointed. The whole length 

 of an adult male about nineteen inches ; the wing, from the 

 anterior bend, twelve inches ; the middle toe and its claw 

 longer than the tarsus. 



A young Fulmar in its second summer, probably twelve 

 or fourteen months old, has the tip of the bill yellow, the 

 other parts greyish horn colour ; head, neck, back, wings, 

 and tail nearly uniform ash-brown, but the surface of the 

 back and wings rather darker in colour; chin, neck in front, 

 and all the under surface of the body also uniform ash- 

 brown, but rather paler in colour than the upper surface ; 

 legs, toes, and their membranes pale brown. 



