PACIFIC FULMAR. 
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Plumage free, close, elastic, blended, ; on the back and wings the feathers 
rather distinct. Wings long ; primary quills rather broad, tapering, acumi- 
nate, the first longest, the rest graduated ; secondary broad and rounded. 
Tail rather short, slightly rounded, of twelve broad, rounded feathers. 
Bill, iris, and feet yellow, the latter tinged with green. The head, neck, 
and lower parts, are pure white ; the back and wings light greyish-blue, the 
rump paler, the tail bluish-white ; the primary quills and their coverts 
blackish-brown. 
Length to end of tail 16J inches, to end of wings 171, to end of claws 
111 ; extent of wings 30 ; wing from flexure 13 ; tail 4| ; bill along the 
back l|f, along the edge of lower mandible 2 T 3 2 ; tarsus 2 ; outer toe 1 T 8 ¥ , its 
claw 1^. Weight 1 lb. 4 oz. 
The Female is similar to the male. 
PACIFIC FULMAR. 
Procellaria PACIFICA, Aud. 
(not figured.) 
Three skins transmitted to me by Mr. Townsend appear to belong to two 
species of the Fulmar genus, distinct from that of the Atlantic seas. The 
first of these species I have named as above. An adult individual resembles 
the common Procellaria glacialis in form, proportions, and colour, but 
differs in having the bill much smaller, more compressed, with the angle of 
the lower mandible narrower, and the tips of both very much inferior in 
strength. It is about the same size as the species just mentioned, and 
shews no remarkable difference in the wings or tail. Besides being more 
compressed, its bill presents a character, which, if universal, is perfectly 
distinctive ; the upper outline of the united nasal tubes is concave in the 
Atlantic Fulmar, and its ridge flattened ; whereas the outline of these tubes 
is straight in the Pacific species, and its ridge distinctly carinate. 
Pacific Fulmar, Procellaria pacijica, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 331. 
