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One specimen taken at Chemainus, Vancouver island, Novem 

 ber, 1895. {Fannin.) This is the common fulmar of the Nortl 

 Pacific, and numbers of specimens have been obtained at Unalaska 

 {Nelson.) Hundreds of thousands of these birds were seen o£ 

 Unimak pass and the eastern end of Unalaska island, in fact, the) 

 covered acres of water; they are also numerous around many o: 

 the Aleutian islands. {Turner.) 



Breeding Notes. — This species breeds on the Commandei 

 islands, on the west side of Bering sea. It nests in the greatest 

 abundance on the high cliffs and promontories rising from the 

 sea. The eggs are dull white. {Nelson) 



86(r. Rodgers Fulmar. 



Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii (Cass.) Coues. 1872. 



All of the Bering sea islands situated off shore and north of the 

 Aleutian islands are frequented by this form during the breeding 

 season; it was common to the north of the Aleutian islands and 

 about the Pribilof islands in the summer of 1877; in the summer 

 of 1881 it was very numerous in Bering strait, and it was also 

 found at St. Lawrence island. {Nelson.) 



Breeding Notes. — This species repairs to the cliffs, especially 

 on the south and east shores of St. George island in Bering sea, 

 It comes early in the season and selects some rocky shelf, secure 

 from all enemies, save man, where, making no nests whatever,but 

 squatting on the bare rock itself, it lays a single large, white ob- 

 long-oval egg and immediately commences the duty and labour 

 of incubation. It is of all the water-fowl the most devoted to its 

 charge, for it will not be scared from the egg by any demonstra- 

 tions that may be made in the way of throwing rocks or yelling, 

 and it will even die as it sits rather than take to flight, as I have 

 requently witnessed, The fulmar lays from the ist to the 5th of 

 June. The egg is very palatable, fully equal to that of our domestic 

 duck, indeed it is somewhat like it. {Elliott.) 



XXXI. PUPFINUS Brisson. 1760. 



89. Greater Shearwater. 



Puffinus gravis (O'Rielly) Salvin. 1896. 

 Common in large flocks off the shore of northeastern Labrador. 

 {Bigelow.) Marked by Holboell and Reinhardt as breeding in the 



