FULMAR. 153 



I. THE FULMAR. FULMARUS GLACIALIS. 



Procellaria glacialis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 213 (1766). 

 Fulniarus glacialis, Macgill. Brit. B. v. p. 429 (1852); Dresser, 



B. Eur. viii. p. 535, pi. 617 (1878) ; B. O. U. List Brit. B. 



p. 199 (1883); Saimders, ed. Yarre'll's Brit. B. iv. p. i 



(1884); Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 430 (1885); 



Saimders, Man. Brit. B. p. 711 (1889); Salvin, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 425 (1896). 



(Plate CXI.} 



Adult Male. General colour above light grey, with obsolete 

 paler fringes to the feathers, the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 delicate pearly-grey; wing-coverts like the back; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky greyish-black, the 

 shafts white, as also the inner web for two-thirds of its 

 breadth ; secondaries grey, like the back, the inner web white, 

 except at the end ; tail-feathers pearly grey, white on the inner 

 web, and at the tips ; head and neck all round, and entire 

 under surface of body pure white, with a little shade of grey 

 on the sides of the upper breast and on the lower flanks ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the wing 

 dusky-grey. " The curved point of the bill is yellow, the 

 sides buff-yellow, those of the upper mandibles being more or 

 less streaked with dark brown, the sheath investing the nostrils 

 almost black ; feet and legs bluish horn colour " (A. H. 

 Cocks}. Total length, 18*5 inches; culmen, 1*65 ; wing, ii'o; 

 tail, 4-1 ; tarsus, 2-2. 



Adult Female. Similar to the male. Total length, 17-5 

 inches; wing, 13-0. 



The Fulmar has also a dark phase, which is of a uniform 

 dusky grey colour, a little paler on the under surface of the 

 body. This is chiefly found in its more northern habitat, but 

 in many places both light and dark forms occur together. 



Characters. In appearance the Fulmar is very like a grey 

 Gull, but it may be distinguished by its tubular nostrils. 

 There is no other British Petrel with .which it can be con- 

 founded. 



