. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 62 TUBE-NOSE I) SWIM M ERS 86b. Pacific Fulmar. Fulmarus glacia I is glupischa. This sub-species of the preceding, has a darkermantle than the common Fulmar; it is found onthe northern Pacific coasts where it breeds onthe high rocky cliffs, the same as its easternrelative. They nest in large colonies, everycrevice in the rocks having its tenant. Theirflight is graceful like that of the (lulls, whichthey closely resemble. They lay but a single
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 62 TUBE-NOSE I) SWIM M ERS 86b. Pacific Fulmar. Fulmarus glacia I is glupischa. This sub-species of the preceding, has a darkermantle than the common Fulmar; it is found onthe northern Pacific coasts where it breeds onthe high rocky cliffs, the same as its easternrelative. They nest in large colonies, everycrevice in the rocks having its tenant. Theirflight is graceful like that of the (lulls, whichthey closely resemble. They lay but a singlewhite egg, the average dimensions of which areslightly smaller than those of the common Ful-mar. Data.—Copper Is., Alaska. May 14, laid in a crevice among the cliffs. Rodgers Fulmar. Fulmarus rodgers. Range. North Pacific, breeding in large minihers on some of the islands in Bering Sea; southto California in winter. Very similar to the twopreceding species except that the back is mixedwith whitish, it is not believed to have a darkphase. Their breeding habits and eggs do notdiffer from the common Fulmar. The eggs arelaid on the ro
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