6o GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



abundance on the high cliffs and promontories rising from the 

 sea. The eggs are dull white. (Nelson) 



86i^. Rodger's Ftdmar. 



Fultnarus glacialis rodgersii {Cas?i.) Coues. 1872. 



All of the Behring Sea islands situated off shore and north of 

 *he Aleutian Islands are frequented by this form during the 

 breeding season ; it was common to the north of the Aleutian 

 Islands and about the Prybiloff Islands in the summer of 1877; 

 in the summer of 1881 it was very numerous in Behring 

 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 Behring 

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

 secure from all enemies, save man, where, making no nest what- 

 ever, but squatting on the bare rock itself, it lays a single large, 

 white oblong oval egg and immediately commences the duty 

 and the labour of incubation. It is of all the water-fowl the 

 jnost devoted to its charge, for it will not be scared from the egg 

 by any demonstrations 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 frequently witnessed. The fulmar lays from 

 the 1st 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.') 



XXXII. PUPPINUS Brisson. 1760. 



S9. Greater Shearwater. 



Puffinus gravis (O'Rielly) Salvin. 1896. 

 Marked by Holboell and Reinhardt as breeding in the southern 

 jpart of Greenland. {Arct. Man.) Abundant from Belle Isle to 

 Resolution Island. {Kumelin.) Rather common on the west 

 •coast of Newfoundland. {Reeks.) Met with off the shores of Nova 

 Scotia ; not seen in the Gulf. {Brewster.) A winter visitor off 

 l^ew Brunswick. {Dr. Adams.) Specimen taken on the coast of 

 Labrador, 1872. {Dionne.) 



50. Manx Shearwater. 



Puffinus puffinus (Brunn.) Light. 1854. 

 One skin received from Greenland. {Arct. Man.) Common from 

 Belle Isle to Grinnell Bay. {Kumelin.) Tolerably common on 



