208 PACIFIC FULMAR. 



Plumage free, close, elastic, blended; on the back and wings the feathers 

 rather distinct. Wings long; primary quills rather broad, tapering, acumi- 

 nate, the first longest, the rest graduated; secondary broad and rounded. 

 Tail rather short, slightly rounded, of twelve broad, rounded feathers. 



Bill, iris, and feet yellow, the latter tinged with green. The head, neck 

 and lower parts, are pure white; the back and wings light greyish-blue, the 

 rump paler, the tail bluish-white; the primary quills and their coverts black- 

 ish-brown. 



Length to end of tail 16^ inches, to end of wings 17§, to end of claws 

 Hi; extent of wings 30; wing from flexure 13; tail 4i; bill along the back 

 1 jf, along the edge of lower mandible 2^; tarsus 2; outer toe 1 T 8 2, its claw 

 f|. Weight 1 lb. 4 oz. 



The Female is similar to the male. 



PACIFIC FULMAR. 



^^Procellaria pacifica, Jlud. 



(not figured.) 



Three skins transmitted to me by Mr. Townsend appear to belong to two 

 species of the Fulmar genus, distinct from that of the Atlantic seas. The 

 first of these species I have named as above. An adult individual resembles 

 the common Procellaria glacialis in form, proportions, and colour, but 

 differs in having the bill much smaller, more compressed, with the angle of 

 the lower mandible narrower, and the tips of both very much inferior in 

 strength. It is about the same size as the species just mentioned, and shews 

 no remarkable difference in the wings or tail. Besides being more com- 

 pressed, its bill presents a character, which, if universal, is perfectly dis- 

 tinctive; the upper outline of the united nasal tubes is concave in the 

 Atlantic Fulmar, and its ridge flattened; whereas the outline of these tubes 

 is straight in the Pacific species, and its ridge distinctly carinate. 



Pacific Fulmar, Procellaria pacifica, Aud. Orn. Eiog.. vol. v. p. 331. 



