FULMAR 



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above and somewhat paler beneath. The nestling is clothed in long 

 white down. In the adult male the total length is i8^ inches, and in 

 the adult female an inch less. 



The only breeding-places of the fulmar in the British Isles are 

 Cape Wrath, on the northern coast of Sutherland (a locality only 

 made known in 1901), the island of Foula in the Shetlands, and 

 several of the Inner Hebrides, whence the species wanders in summer 

 to the Outer Hebrides, more especially St. Kilda and Borrera. 

 In modern times Foula dates as a breeding-place only from the 

 year 1878. On the American side of the North Atlantic, Baffin 



MOUNTED IN THE ROWLAND WARD STUDIOS 



FULM.VK (light PH.\SE). 



Bay and Greenland are well-known resorts of the species, whence its 

 range extends eastwards to Iceland, Spitzbergen, Xovaia Zemlia, and 

 Franz Josef Land. 



The fulmar is a bird of great importance and value to the in- 

 habitants of the Westman Islands, to the south of Iceland, where it 

 is considered that in a good season something like 30,000 head are 

 taken. The bodies of the birds, when cleaned, smoked, and dried, are 

 used for food ; while the fat is employed for two purposes, being either 

 boiled down into oil, or salted and flavoured with spices, when it takes 

 the place of butter in the household economy. About ten good 

 fulmars are required to yield a litre of oil ; this oil being largely used 

 for lighting purposes. 



