Fulmaris glaciaus. 
Char. Mantle and tail bluish gray; wings dusky; head, neck, and 
under parts white ; bill greenish yellow ; legs and feet pale flesh-color. 
Length about 19 inches. Numerous examples, supposed to be immature 
birds, have the white portions ciouded with gray, and the mantie tinged 
with brown. 
A^esi. A deep hollow scratched in the soil on a grassy shelf of a cliff ; 
sometimes on a bare rock, — usually a thin cushion of grass or moss ; 
often the egg is laid on the soil. 
I ; white, with a rough, chalk-like surface, sometimes with a few 
spots of reddish brown ; average size 2.90 X 2.00. 
Surrounded by an eternal winter, the Fulmars dwell nearly 
at all seasons of the year upon the Arctic seas. Harbingers 
of storm and danger, they choose the wildest and most deso- 
late of regions, where, congregating amidst the floating ice, they 
