158 



PTTFFINID-E. 



white and without gloss. They measure from 1-55 to 1*7 in length, 

 and from 1*18 to 1'25 in breadth. 



2. [Madeira.] 



5. Madeira (Baker). 



2. Desertas, 15th June. 



4. Desertas. 



1. Porto Santo, 22nd June. 



1. Porto Santo, 22nd June (Padre 

 Schmitz). 



Old Collection. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Padre Schmitz [0.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Padre Schmitz [C.]. 

 Hon. C. Baring & W. R. 

 Ogilvie Grant, Esq. [P.]. 



Sub-Family FULMARIN^E. 



Genus OSSIFRAGA, Hombr. fy Jacq. 

 Ossifraga gigantea (Gm.). 



Procellaria gigantea, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xcii. fig. 3 (1845 



54) ; Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 80. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; Abbott, 

 f Ibis, 1861, p. 164; Layard, Ibis, 1867, p. 458. 



Ossifraga gigantea, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 443 (1865) ; 

 Travers, Tr. N. Z. Inst. v. p. 219 (1872); Sharpe, Phil. Trans. 

 168. p. 142 (1879) ; Baird, Brewer $ Ridgw. Water Birds N. 

 Am. ii. p. 363 (1884) ; Butter, Birds New Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 225 

 (1888); Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. p. 422 (1896); Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. i. p. 127 (1899); Hall, Ibis, 1900, p. 25. 



The eggs of the Giant Fulmar are roughly granulated, of an oval 

 form, plain white and without gloss. They measure from 3'85 to 4 

 in length, and from 2-35 to 2*7 in breadth. 



2. [Southern Ocean.] Old Collection. 



1. Falkland Islands ( C. C. Abbott}. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands. Gould Coll. 



Genus FULMARUS, Steph. 



Fulmarus glacialis (Linn.). 



Procellaria glacialis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xcii. f 



(1845-54) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 512, pi. cxliv. 



(1856). 

 Fulmarus glacialis, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 55. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 535 (1878) ; Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgw. 



Water Birds N. Am. ii. p. 366 (1884); Diron, Ibis, 1885, p. 92; 



Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 430, pi. 56 (1885) ; id. Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 73, pi. 20. fig. 5 (1896) ; Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 



p. 425 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 127 (1899). 

 The Fulmar, H. J. Elwes, Ibis, 1869, p. 32. 



The eggs of the Fulmar Petrel are mostly of a broad oval shape ; 

 a few are biconical. They are rough and chalky in texture, without 

 gloss and plain white, but they soon become discoloured with in- 



