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Family— PROCELLARUD&. , Subfamily— 0CEAN1TINSE. 



Frigate Petrel. 



Pelagodroma maiHna (LATH.) 



ORIGINALLY discovered during Captain Cook's first voyage, and procured 

 in lat. 37 off the east coast of South America, this long-legged Petrel 

 breeds on the Salvage Islands, Cape Verde Islands, and off Cape Leewin, South- 

 west Australia. It ranges over the southern seas, and has occurred on the coast 

 of Massachusetts, as well as in Western Britain. In November, 1890, a Frigate 

 Petrel was washed up on Walney Island, and this I placed in the Carlisle 

 Museum. On January 1st, 1897, a second specimen was caught alive on Colonsay, 

 and this Mr. W. Eagle Clarke secured for the Edinburgh Museum. The Frigate 

 Petrel has most of the upper parts slaty-brown, becoming paler and greyer on the 

 back ; rump and upper tail-coverts clear grey ; tail and wings brownish-black ; 

 forehead, an elongated superciliary stripe and lower parts pure white. Total 

 length about 8 inches; bill 0*9; tarsus i'6. 



Family -PUFFINTDAl. Subfamily— FULMARIN/E. 



Fulmar. 



Fidmarus glacialis (LlNN.) 



THE Fulmar is one of the most characteristic of Arctic birds. It breeds 

 gregariously in Spitsbergen. Dr. Nansen met with it when he was 

 approaching Franz Josef Land over the ice from the North-east. Mr. W. S. 

 Bruce found a colony of Fulmars established at the east end of Mabel Island. 

 Messrs. Pearson found Fulmars on the coast of Novaya Zemlya and Lutke's Land. 



