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ALLEN S naturalist’s LIBRARY. 
'I'IIP: I’ULMARS AND SHEARWATERS. FAMILY 
PUFFINID.F. 
According to Mr, Osbeit Salvin, this family of Petrels 
is distinguished by the following characters “ Nostrils 
united, or nearly so, above the culmen ; margin of the 
sternum uneve,n ; distinct pterygoid processes ; manubrium of 
furcula very short ; coracoids short, wide at the base and 
divergent ; first primary the longest, or not shorter than the 
second.” 
These birds are of larger size and stouter build than the 
Storm-Petrels, and are divided into two sub-families, the 
Fulmarinm, or P'ulmars, and the Puffininx, or Shearwaters. 
THE FULMARS. SUB-FAMILY FULMARIN/E. 
The Fulmars are distinguished from the Shearwaters by the 
lamellte which are more or less distinctly dev'eloped on the 
sides of the palate. Five genera are included by Mr. Salvin 
in this sub-family, the Giant Fulmar {^Ossifraga) being as large 
as some of the smaller Albatroses. The Cape Pigeons 
{Daption) also belong to this group, as well as the Fulmars 
{Fulmarus), and the pretty little Blue Petrels of the Southern 
Ocean, Prion and Halolmna. 
THE TRUE FULMARS. GENUS FULMARUS. 
Fulmarus, Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 233 (1826). 
Type, F. glacialis (Linn.). 
In the Fulmars the feet and bill are very strong. The latter 
is stout, with the rami of the mandible strong and having a 
bare inter-ramal space. I'he nasal tube is short, but well 
developed, large and high at the base, equal to the width of 
the latericorn (cf Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 422). The 
tail-feathers are fourteen in number. 
I'he three species of Fulmarus are found distributed over 
the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans. 
