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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  over 
  the 
  entire 
  ocean, 
  the 
  petrels, 
  or 
  Mother 
  Carey's 
  chickens, 
  and 
  albatrosses 
  

   being 
  among 
  the 
  best 
  known 
  of 
  birds. 
  There 
  is 
  an 
  unusual 
  range 
  in 
  size 
  

   in 
  this 
  order 
  from 
  the 
  Stonily 
  petrel, 
  the 
  smallest 
  of 
  natatorial 
  birds, 
  to 
  the 
  

   Giant 
  albatross 
  whose 
  wing 
  expanse 
  is 
  unsurpassed 
  in 
  the 
  whole 
  bird 
  king- 
  

   dom. 
  The}^ 
  have 
  no 
  equals 
  in 
  the 
  power 
  of 
  flight, 
  even 
  among 
  the 
  Longi- 
  

   pennes, 
  practically 
  living 
  in 
  the 
  air 
  and 
  snatching 
  their 
  food 
  of 
  marine 
  

   animals 
  and 
  oily 
  matter 
  from 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  sea. 
  Authorities 
  are 
  at 
  

   variance 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  families 
  but 
  four 
  are 
  usually 
  recognized. 
  

   The 
  albatrosses 
  (Diomedeidae) 
  and 
  diving 
  petrels 
  (Pelecanoididae) 
  are 
  

   not 
  fomid 
  in 
  the 
  nearctic 
  region. 
  

  

  Family 
  PUKKINIDA.E1 
  

  

  Fulmars, 
  Shearwaters 
  and 
  Petrels 
  

  

  Medium 
  or 
  large 
  in 
  size; 
  first 
  primary 
  as 
  long 
  or 
  longer 
  than 
  second; 
  

   basipter3^goids 
  present; 
  coracoids 
  short, 
  with 
  broad 
  bases 
  and 
  widely 
  diverg- 
  

   ino- 
  axes 
  ; 
  hypocleidium 
  of 
  furcula 
  short 
  ; 
  sternum 
  with 
  uneven 
  posterior 
  

   margin. 
  

  

  The 
  fulmars 
  (Fulmarinae) 
  have 
  the 
  bill 
  stout, 
  the 
  nasal 
  tubes 
  promi- 
  

   nent 
  with 
  a 
  thin 
  partition 
  between 
  them, 
  the 
  under 
  mandible 
  not 
  hooked, 
  

   the 
  upper 
  mandible 
  with 
  rudimentary 
  or 
  well 
  developed 
  lamellae, 
  and 
  the 
  

   tail 
  of 
  14 
  or 
  16 
  feathers. 
  The 
  shearwaters 
  and 
  petrels 
  (Puffininae) 
  have 
  

   the 
  under 
  mandible 
  hooked, 
  the 
  tubes 
  low 
  with 
  thickened 
  partitions, 
  no 
  

   lammellae, 
  and 
  the 
  tail 
  of 
  12 
  feathers. 
  

  

  Fulmarus 
  glacialis 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

  

  Fulmar 
  

  

  Procellaria 
  glacialis 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  1766. 
  Ed. 
  12. 
  i: 
  213 
  

   Fulmarus 
  glacialis 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  ^°- 
  86 
  

  

  ful'marus 
  from 
  Eng. 
  fulmar; 
  glacid'lis, 
  of 
  the 
  ice 
  

  

  Description. 
  Head, 
  neck 
  and 
  under 
  parts 
  white; 
  mantle 
  pearl-gray; 
  bill 
  greenish 
  yellow; 
  feet 
  

   gray, 
  or 
  yellowish; 
  quills 
  ashy 
  brown. 
  Dark 
  phase: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  smoky 
  gray, 
  somewhat 
  paler 
  below. 
  

  

  Length 
  18-20 
  inches; 
  wing 
  12. 
  5-13. 
  5; 
  tail 
  4.5-5; 
  bill 
  1.3-1.8; 
  average 
  1.5; 
  depth 
  of 
  bill 
  .75; 
  

   tarsus 
  2. 
  

  

  The 
  Fulmar, 
  or 
  Noddy, 
  of 
  the 
  north 
  Atlantic 
  has 
  been 
  taken 
  in 
  winter 
  as 
  far 
  south 
  as 
  Massachu- 
  

   setts 
  and 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  although 
  we 
  can 
  find 
  no 
  valid 
  record 
  of 
  its 
  occurrence 
  within 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  

   New 
  York 
  State. 
  It 
  is 
  undovibtedly 
  an 
  occasional 
  winter 
  visitant 
  off 
  our 
  coast 
  where 
  it 
  might 
  easily 
  

   be 
  overlooked 
  by 
  the 
  inexperienced 
  because 
  of 
  its 
  general 
  resemblance 
  to 
  the 
  common 
  gull. 
  

  

  