LARID^. 621 



tinged with straw-yellow ; back, tertials, wing- and 

 tail-coverts brownish grey ; primaries and tail- 

 feathers almost black ; chin, throat and upper part 

 of the belly white; lower part of the belly and 

 under tail-coverts light brownish grey; legs, toes 

 and webs black. In Mr. Sanford's specimen the 

 head appears to be dark dusky brown, rather than 

 black, as stated by Yarrell, and the tail is not so 

 dark as the primary quills. The young bird of the 

 year, according to a description in the 'Zoologist' 

 for 1804 (p. 9365) of an immature male killed at 

 Flamborough Head, in the beginning of September, 

 is sooty black throughout, with a slight shade of 

 brown in some lights ; the shafts of the primaries 

 white ; the legs, toes and webs inky black. 



The egg is said to be of a pale green colour, 

 spotted with ash-grey and dark reddish brown.* 



FULMAR PETREL, Procellaria, glacialis. This com- 

 panion of the whale- fisher is only a rare autumnal 

 visitor to our coast : the only notice I know of its 

 occurrence in this county is from the pen of the 

 Rev. Murray A. Mathew, in the 'Zoologist' for 

 1869 (Second Series, p. 1644), in a paper on "The 

 Slaughter of Sea-fowl at Weston-super-Mare." After 

 giving an account of the slaughter of various Gulls 

 by the fishermen of those parts, he says, "Another 

 fisherman shot an old Fulmar, not a common visitor 



* Yarrell, vol. iii., p. 637. 



