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PUFFINIDiE. 



Fulmarus glacialis. Fulmar. 



Procellaria glacialis Linnceus, Fauna Suecica, 2nd ed. 

 1761, p. 51 : Arctic seas. 



Fulmarus glacialis (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 199 ; 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 1896, p. 425 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 751. 



Cfl«c2alis= living among the ice, glucUs. 



Distribution in the Bi itisli Islands. — A Eesldent, ■wliich 

 has greatly extended its breeding-range during recent years. 

 It now nests on St. Kilda, Barra, the Flannan Isles, and 

 North Rona, in the Outer Hebrides, in the Shetland and 

 Orkney Islands, the north coast of Scotland, and Handa 

 Island, off Sutherland. In Ireland it has been found of 

 recent years nesting on the coasts of Mayo and Ulster. It is 

 to be met with at most times of the year off the east coast 

 of Great Britain and the north and west of Ireland, and in 

 winter off the south and west coasts of England; but it 

 seldom approaches land unless storm-driven. 



General Distrihution — The Fulmar inhabits the north 

 Atlantic, extending far into the Arctic Ocean, where it 

 breeds in many localiiies from the F.ieroes, Icehmd, and 

 both coasts of Greenland, west to Melville Island, and east 

 to Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land. In winter it moves 

 farther south. An allied form is found in the north 

 Pacltie. 



Genus (ESTEELATA Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. xlii. 1856, 

 p. 768. JJ. CI. 



Type : CE. hasilata Kuhl. 



(Estrelaia (originally spelled JSstrelata, witliont doubt a misprint) = 

 ciVrpf/XarDs, driven by frenzy ; from olTr|Oos = a gadfly, thence anything that 

 drives mad, and e\aui'ui = 'l drive : in allusion to the bird's habit of perpetually 

 flying to- and fro. 



