PROCELLARIA GLACIALIS. 
FULMAR PETREL, ^ 
Generic Character. 
Bill strong;, strait^ hooked at the tip. 
Nostrils situated in a tube, placed on tke upper 
mandible. 
Toes three^ webbed. 
Legs furnished with a spur in lieu of a back toe. 
Procellaria glaeialis ; albicans, dorso canescente, 
rostro pedibusque flavicantibus. 
Fu LMAR Petrel. Body whitish^ back grey white ; 
bill and feet pale yellow. 
Procellaria Glacialis. Lin. Syst. v, 1. p. 213. 
Gmel SysL v. 2. p. 562. Ind, Orn. v. 2. 
p. 823. 
Fulmar. Martin's Voyage to St. Kilda, p. 55 to 58. 
Le Petrel Fulmar. Buff. Hist. d'Ois. v. 9. p. 325. 
Petrel de l'ile de Saint Kilda. PL Enl. p. 59. 
Petrel Fulmar. Temm. Man. d'Orn. ed. 2. p. 802, 
Fulmar Petrel. Br. Zool. ed. 8t;o. v. 2. p. 203, 
pi. 36. Arct. Zool. v. 2. 250. Lewin 
Br. Birds, v, 7. p. 258. Mont. Orn. Diet, 
Bewick's Br. Birds, pt. 2. p. 218. 
This species measures seventeen inches in length, thirty- 
six in breadth, and weighs from twenty to thirty ounces. 
Bill strong, cuhrated and much hooked; nostrils tubular, 
contained in a strong truncated sheath ; legs varying from 
flesh colour to yellow ; webs pale brown. 
The Fulmar is confined to the more Northern parts of 
Great Britain : to the rocky isles off the North of Scot- 
land it resorts in great numbers, and forms a very substan» 
tial purt of the food of the natives. ' 
