FULMAR. 765 



or diseased birds, the healthy ones keeping further out to sea, 

 but this can hardly be so in every case, though I have no doubt 

 that those seen on the beach in summer are suffering from some 

 fatal disease. After the " Skua Gale " on I4th-i5th October 

 1879, several Fulmars were observed on various parts of the 

 coast ; eleven were reported from Flamborough, and examples 

 were picked up at Redcar and Teesmouth ; the autumn of 

 1887 was also noticeable for the comparative abundance 

 of this bird after a storm on 28th October. It has been met 

 with at most of the coast stations, though the instances of its 

 occurrence are too numerous for mention in detail ; Flam- 

 borough, Scarborough, and Redcar are the localities whence 

 it has been most frequently recorded. 



As stated above, the autumn and winter are the periods 

 when the Fulmar is usually met with, though in the year i86g 

 one was found at Saltburn in the month of June, and I have on 

 four occasions seen examples in summer : — on ist July 1888 

 a specimen was washed ashore on Coatham sands ; on the 31st 

 of the same month in i8gi another occurred at Redcar ; on 

 25th May 1902 I found a splendid adult specimen on the 

 beach east of Redcar, but, unfortunately, my taxidermist 

 was unable to preserve it, and on 22nd June 1903 a very 

 fine adult was picked up. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney commented in the Naturalist (1879, 

 p. 74) on the number of Yorkshire specimens he has examined 

 (he had eleven in October 1879), and on the discrepancy in 

 their weights and the size of their bills ; the heaviest scaling 

 260Z., whilst the smallest weighed only 140Z. 



The white-breasted and the dark northern forms are 

 both met with, and I have had specimens of each kind on the 

 Cleveland coast. A Fulmar, taken on a hook at Filey on 26th 

 October 1868, was found to have swallowed a Redwing {Zool. 

 1868, p. 1483). The example recorded from Flamborough, 

 in October of the same year, was figured by Gould in his work 

 on British Birds. 



The only vernacular name is Mollemoke or Mollemawk, 

 which is probably derived from the Norwegian sailors, with 

 whom Yorkshire fishermen formerly frequently associated. 



