234 



NORTHERN FULMAR. 



(Fulmarus glacialis ) 



Fu. albicans, doiso canescente, rostro pedibusque flamcantibus. 

 Whitish Fulmar with the back hoary, the beak and legs yel- 

 lowish. 



Proceilaria glacialis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 213. Gmel. Syst. Nat* 

 1. 562. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 823. Sabine, Linn. Trans, xii. 

 523. 



Proceilaria cinerea. Briss. Orn. 6. 143. pi. \2.f. 2. 



Fulmar, ou Petrel-Puffin gris-blanc, Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 



325. pi. 22. Buff. PL Enl. 59. Temm. man. d'Orn. 518. 



Id. 2 Edit. ii. 802. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 515. 

 Wagellus Cornubiensium. Raii Syn. 130. A. 

 Fulmar Petrel. Penn. Brit. ZooL 2. 257. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 



461. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 403. Lew. Brit. Birds, 6. pi. 217. 



Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 89. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1 . and Supp. Betv. 



Brit. Birds, 2. pi. 243. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 179. 



Length seventeen inches : beak bright yellow, 

 tinged with orange on its nasal tube : irides yellow : 

 the head, neck, all the under parts of the body, the 

 rump, and the tail, of a pure white : the back, sca- 

 pulars, wing-coverts, and secondaries, are of a clear 

 blue-ash : the quills are bright grey -brown : the tail 

 is rounded : the legs are greyish-yellow. The young 

 have all the parts of the body of bright grey shaded 

 with brown ; the feathers on the back and of the 

 wings tipped with a deeper brown : the quills and 

 tail-feathers are grey-brown : before the eye is an 

 angulated black spot : the beak and legs are ashy- 



