PUFFINIDi*:. 



751 



THE FULMAR. 



FuLMARUS GLACiALis (Linnffius). 



This Petrel is seldom met with near the southern and western 

 coasts of England except during the colder months, and even then 

 chiefly after tempestuous weather, when it is sometimes driven far 

 inland ; but on the fishing-grounds about thirty miles off the east 

 coast it is by no means uncommon, and, when the herring-nets 

 are being hauled, birds are sometimes taken by the hand, owing 

 to their voracity. In Ireland few examples have actually been 

 obtained, but I have seen plenty within eight hours by steamer from 

 Lough Foyle. In Scotland, where the Fulmar is frequently observed 

 in winter, it has long been known to breed in the St. Kilda group, 

 and has been seen in summer round the Flannans and North Rona; 

 while in the Shetlands, where it began to nest on Foula in June 1878, 

 it has now spread to Papa Stour, Esha Ness, and two places in Unst, 

 and had reached the Noup of Noss by the summer of 1898. 



In the Faeroes, where the Fulmar was first noticed as a breeding- 

 species about 1839, it is now common. Judging by the descriptions 



