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south isles of Barra. In June 1878 about a dozen 

 pairs nested on Foula {Zool, 1879, pp. 380, 422). 

 It has now spread to Papa Stour, Esha Ness, and 

 Unst, and had reached the Noup of Noss by the 

 summer of 1898 (Saunders, Manual, p. 751). 



After the breeding season the Fulmar migrates 

 to the more southern British coasts, but keeps a good 

 deal out to sea. 



Between October 1878 and December 1885 at 

 least fifteen specimens of the Fulmar were obtained 

 off Yarmouth {Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, iv. 1886, 

 p. 223). Hancock has noticed four which were 

 captured by hand on fishing-boats off Scarborough, 

 these birds being very fearless in seizing fish when 

 the nets are drawn, and this accords with the ex- 

 perience of the Greenland whalers, to whom the 

 Fulmar is known as the " MoUymoke." 



In Ireland this bird is regarded as a rare and 

 accidental visitor in autumn, but almost all the 

 specimens obtained there have been found cast up 

 along shore after stormy weather. 



The weight of an adult Fulmar in good condition 

 is about 16 oz. 



V STORM PETREL. Frocellaria pelagica, Linnseus.^ PI. 

 35, figs. 2, 2a. Length, 6*5 in. : bill, 0*6 in. ; wing, 

 4'75 in. ; tarsus, 09 in. 



Breeds in the Channel and Scilly Islands, on 

 Lundy Island, the Calf of Man, Ailsa Craig, lona, 



^ The genus Procellaria, with P. pelagica as its type, having been 

 founded by Linnaeus in 1766 (Syst. Nat., i. 212), there can be no doubt 

 that this generic name should have precedence of Thalassidroma of 



