50 check-list of noeth american birds. 



Family PROCELLARIID^. Fulmars, Shearwaters, and 

 Petrels. 



Subfamily FXJLMARIHiE. Fulmars. 



[Genus MACRONECTES Richmond. 



Macronectes Richmond, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVIII, 1905, 76. l^e, 

 by orig. desig., ProceUaria gigantea Gmelin. 



Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin). Giant Fulmar. [85.] 



ProceUaria gigantea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 563. (Probably 

 Falkland Islands and vicinity.) 



Range. — Southern oceans, north to about latitude 30° S.; casual 

 off coast of Oregon.] 



Genus FULMARUS Stephens. 



Fulmanis Stephens, General Zoology, XIII, Pt. i, 1826, 233. Type, 

 by subs, desig., ProceUaria glacialis LinNjBUS (Gray, 1855). 



Fulmaras glaci&lis (Linn^us). 



Range. — North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. 



a. Falmarus gladalig glaciali8 (Linnaeus). Fulmar. [86.] 



ProceUaria glacialis LinnjBus, Fauna Suecica, ed. 2, 1761, 51. (Spitz- 

 bergen? — "intra circulum arcticum.") 



Range. — North Atlantic. Breeds from northern Greenland to Cumber- 

 land Sound and east at least to Franz Josef Land; ranges north to latitude 

 85° and west to Melville Island; winters south of the Arctic Circle to the 

 fishing banks off Newfoundland and to George Bank off Massachusetts, 

 and casually to New Jersey. 



b. Fulmanis glacialis gluplseha Stejneoer. Pacific Fulmar. [86&.] 



Fulmarus glacialis glupischa Stejnegek, Auk, I, July, 1884, 234. (North- 

 west coast of America.) 



