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TUBINAEES. 



263. FULMARUS GLACIALIS. 

 (FULMAR.) 

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



The Fulmar is one of the larger species (wing from carpal joint 

 about 12 inches). It varies very much in colour : but is easily dis- 

 tinguished from any of the Shearwaters by the length of its nasal 

 tubes, which nearly reach the nail of the bill; and from all its 

 Japanese allies by the under outline of its bill, which turns suddenly 

 upwards at the angle of the mandible, instead of following the same 

 direction throughout. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 617. 



Head of Fulmarua glacialis. Natural size. 



Steller observed the Fulmar breeding in great numbers on the 

 Kurile Islands (Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 313), and Mr. 

 Snow has recently observed the same fact (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. 

 As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 106). There are examples from the Kurile 

 Islands in the Hakodadi Museum (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878 

 p. 218), and there is a skin in the British Museum collected by 

 Mr. Snow on the same islands (Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 25), The 



