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and tail feathers of an invaded shade of 
brown-grey : in front of the eyes there is 
an angular black spot; beak and legs of 
a yellowish ash-colour. 
The Fulmar is seldom found on our 
southern coasts, but it is frequent on some 
of the islands off the northern coast of Scot- 
land ; it has been met with in both the 
arctic and antarctic regions. In the late 
Voyage of discovery, Capt. Sabine found 
" these birds very abundant at all times in 
Baffin's Bay and Davis's Straits ; the great- 
er part in the plumage described by authors 
generally, but some were occasionally seen 
in which the whole under parts as well as 
the head and neck were ash-colour, instead 
of white ; and the back and wings of a 
darker shade : these latter birds agree with 
the plumage which Temminck has as- 
signed to the young birds ; if they were 
such, the species is two years in attaining 
maturity, because we killed full plumaged 
birds of this character in June ; the dif- 
ference cannot be sexual, as males and 
females in each colour were obtained. r 
"Whilst the ships were detained by the 
