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escape it. Though few should be seen when a 
whale is about being captured, yet as soon as the 
flenzing process commences they rush in from all 
quarters, and frequently accumulate to many thou- 
sands in number.” ‘Their appetite and digestion, 
however, appear to be equal to a much greater 
variety of food than fat and whale-blubber, as 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., in a note in the ‘ Zoologist’ 
for 1868 (Second Series, p. 1482), says the ceso- 
phagus of one contained a bird, which he had no 
hesitation in saying was a Redwing, a fish of some 
description, a few Gulls’ feathers, and also what he 
believed to be the mandibles of a cuttle-fish. The 
cuttle-fish appears to be rather a favourite food of 
the Fulmar.* 
According to Yarrell the adult bird has the curved 
point of the bill pale yellow, the sides horny white ; 
irides straw-yellow; the whole head and neck all 
round pure white; the back, all the wing-coverts, 
secondaries, tertials, upper tail-coverts and _ tail- 
feathers pearl-grey; wing primaries  slate-grey; 
breast, belly and all the under surface of the body 
pure white; legs, toes and webs brownish yellow. 
My specimen, which I picked up alive on the south 
coast of Devon, on the 30th of November, 1866, is 
probably a younger bird, as it differs from this de- 
scription of Yarrell’s in a few particulars: the irides 
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* © Zoologist’ for 1869 (Second Series, p. 1603). 
