. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS—Order Tubinares SHEARWATERS—Family ProceUaridae FULMAR 86. Fulniariis glacialis. 19 in. Bill short and stout, compared to that of the sliear-waters, strongly hooked at the tip and with the nostrilsopening out of a single tube, prominently located on thei(ip of the bill. They have two color phases, the light■ me being-gull-like, but the tail is gray like the numtle;«yes brown: bill and feet yellowish. In the dark phasethey are uniformly gray above and below. These plum-ages ajipear to be independe
. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS—Order Tubinares SHEARWATERS—Family ProceUaridae FULMAR 86. Fulniariis glacialis. 19 in. Bill short and stout, compared to that of the sliear-waters, strongly hooked at the tip and with the nostrilsopening out of a single tube, prominently located on thei(ip of the bill. They have two color phases, the light■ me being-gull-like, but the tail is gray like the numtle;«yes brown: bill and feet yellowish. In the dark phasethey are uniformly gray above and below. These plum-ages ajipear to be independent of sex or age. They areextremely abundant at some of their breeding groinidsin the far north. The birds are constant companionsof the whalers, and feed largely upon blubber tliat isthrown overboard. Nest.—Their single white eggs are laid upun l)areledges of sea cliffs. (). Range.—Breeds in the North Atlantic and ArcticOceans from Labrador and northern Scotland north-ward; winters south regularlv. CORY SHEARWATER 88. Piiffiniis horcalls. 21 in. This ra
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