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ground without nest of any sort. The young Shear- 

 waters on leaving the egg are covered with grey down 

 and are assiduously tended by their parents, who feed 

 them on fish-oil from their own stomachs, mixed 

 with sorrel, and occasionally other vegetable remains. 

 Both old and young, on being handled, almost 

 invariably throw up a considerable quantity of oily 

 matter of greenish colour, foul odour, and remarkable 

 tenacity ; in fact both its smell and stain are 

 exceedingly difficult to eradicate from clothing of 

 wool, cotton, or linen. The clamour produced by a 

 colony of Shearwaters from their nesting-places 

 about nightfall is indescribable, but I must confess 

 that most of the concerts of this sort, that I have 

 listened to, have been produced by more than one 

 species. I do not remember to have heard any 

 sound from a Shearwater on wing. On certain parts 

 of our own coasts and throughout the Mediterranean 

 the young of this and the other species of Shearwater 

 are highly esteemed as articles of food, but, having 

 made trial of them in that way, I cannot conscien- 

 tiously recommend them, except to those persons 

 who may be endowed with a natural taste for cod- 

 liver or castor-oil. 



214. FULMAR PETREL. 



Fuhnaras glaciaUs. 



The only record that I can discover of the occur- 

 rence of this species in our county was sent to me 

 by Mr. A. G. Elliot, formerly of Stamford, who, 

 under date of April 9 and 13, 1881, informed me 

 that a Fulmar was caught by a dog belonging to one 



