FULMARUS GLACIALIS. 



specimens from St. Kilda had the bill bluish-yellow of different shades, notched with 

 darker patches and streaks ; legs pale flesh-coloured, darker on the outer surface of the 

 outer toe. These colours agree very well with those of a fresh specimen killed off the 

 Butt of Lewes in the month of February, 1909, and sent me for comparison by the 

 Duchess of Bedford. 



Salvin, in the " Catalogue of Birds," says : — " Bill dark, the tip of the maxilla 

 and the lower edge of the mandible yellow ; feet yellowish flesh-colour." 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Wing, 13.1 inches ; culmen, 1.5 ; tarsus, 

 2.05 ; middle toe and claw, 2.6. 



The dark phase of the Common Fulmar is dull ashy-grey, with the primaries 

 somewhat darker ; under-surf ace of the body slightly paler ; bill rather more dusky 

 than in the light phase. Gould figures a Yorkshire specimen in Mr. J. H. Gurney's 

 Collection, and gives the bill as grey with a pinkish shade, the nostrils black, and 

 the nail pale yellow. 



The male and female described are from St. Kilda, the male procured by Mr. 

 Theodore Walker, and the female by Mr. C. Dixon on June 6th, 1884; both are in 

 the British Museum. The dark phase is figured from a North Sea specimen, and the 

 white phase from a bird procured by Captain D. Gray in the North Atlantic (Lat. 75° 25' 

 N., Long. 10° W.). The light phase is taken from a specimen formerly in the Seebohm 

 Collection and now in the British Museum. 



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