92. FULMARUS GLACIALIS (Linn.). 



(COMMON FULMAR.) 



(Plate 77.) 



The Fulmar, Martin, Voy. St. Kilda, p. 55. 



Le Petrel cendre, Brisson, Orn., VI., p. 143, PI. 12, fig. 2 (1760) ; Buff., Hist. Nat. Ois, 



IX., p. 302, PI. 20 (1783). 

 Procellaria glacialis, Linn., Syst. Nat., p. 213 (1766). 

 Le Fulmar, ou Petrel-Puffin gris-blanc de Tile St. Kilda, Buff., Hist. Nat. Ois., IX., 



p. 325, PI. 22 (1783). 

 Petrel de Tisle de St. Kilda, Daubent., PL Enl., X., PI. 59 (1786). 

 Fulmar Petrel, Lath., Gen. Syn., III., pt. 2, p. 403 (1785). 

 Fulmarus glacialis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII. , pt. 1, p. 234, PL 27 (1826) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur., VIII., p. 535, PL 617 (1878) ; Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, 



Water-Birds N. Amer., II., p. 366 (1884) ; Saunders, ed. 4, Yarrell, Brit. 



Birds, IV, p. 1 (1884) ; id., Man. Brit. Birds, p. 751 (1899) ; Salvin, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 425 (1896). 

 Procellaria hiemalis, C. L. Brehm, Vog. DeutschL, p. 800 (1831). 

 Procellaria minor, Kjserb., J. f. O., 1854, p. lix. ; id., Danm. Fugle, Suppl. (2), p. 324, 



PL 7, fig. 7 (1852). 

 Procellaria borealis, Brehm, Naum., 1855, p. 296. 

 Fulmarus glacialis b. minor, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 187 (1855). 

 Fulmarus minor, Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 768 (1856). 



Ad. (forma typica). Cinereus, scapularibus terminaliter paullo saturatioribus : 

 primariis nigricantibus, rhachidibus albis : pileo et collo undique, corporeque subtus 

 toto pure albis : rostro sordido, apice flavo, tubulis nasalibus nigricantibus. 



Ad. (forma saturatior). Omnino murino-cinerascens, subtus pallidior. 



The Common Fulmar, which ranges from the North Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean, 

 breeds abundantly on St. Kilda, off the west coast of Scotland, and has been said 

 to do so on Soa ; it is apparently extending its range, as it is now plentiful on 

 the Faroe Islands, from whence we have no record of its nesting before the year 1839. 



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