93. FULMARUS GLUPISCHA, Stejneger. 



(PACIFIC FULMAR.) 

 (Plate 78.) 



Procellaria glacialis, Pall, (nee Linn.), Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., II., p. 312 (1811). 



Procellaria pacifica (nee Gm.), Audub., Orn. Biogr., V., p. 331 (1839). 



Fvlmarus pacificus (nee Gm.), Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 768 (1856) ; Coues, 



Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, p. 28. 

 Fulmarus glacialis a. pacificus, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 187 (1856). 

 Fvlmarus glacialis, var. pacificus, Coues, Key. N. Amer. Birds, p. 327 (1872). 

 Fulmarus glacialis (nee Linn.), Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 25 ; id., Birds Japan. Emp., 



p. 268 (1890). 

 Fulmarus glacialis pacificus, Coues, Checkl. N. Amer. Birds, p. 125 (1882). 

 Fulmarus glacialis glupischa, Stejneger, Auk, I., p. 234 (1884) ; id., Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., No. 29, p. 91, PI. 6, figs. 1, 2 (1885) ; Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, 



Water-Birds N. Amer., II., p. 366 (1884). 

 Fulmarus glupischa, Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 427 (1896). 



Ad. (forma typica). F. glaciali similis, sed rostro aurantiaco-flavo : tubulis nasalibus 

 quoque aurantiaco-flavis distinguendus. 



Ad. (forma saturatior). F. glaciali similis, sed saturate brunneus, nee cinereus, et 

 tubulis nasalibus aurantiaco-flavis semper distinguendus. 



Audubon described tbis species under the name of Procellaria pacifica, and the bird 

 was known for many years as Fulmarus pacificus. In 1884, however, Dr. Stejneger 

 pointed out that the same name had been given to a Petrel by Gmelin in 1788, and 

 since the title of pacifica was pre-occupied, he proposed to substitute that of 

 glupischa, founded on the " Glupisch," as the bird is called by the natives of the 

 Commander Islands. 



Like the Common Fulmar, this Pacific representative is said to possess a light 

 and a dark phase of plumage. In both plumages, however, F. glupischa is easily recog- 

 nisable by its entirely yellow bill. In other respects the light, or grey and white, 



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