FULMAR. 
FULMAR PETREL. PETREL FULMAR. NORTHERN FULMAR. 
MALLEMOKE. MOLLY. 
Piocellaria glacialis, 
ii U 
“ cinerea , 
Fulmar us glacialis, 
Linnaeus. Gmeltn. 
Latham. Sabine. Fleming. 
Brisson. 
Stephens. 
Procellaria. Procella —A storm. Glacialis — Belonging to ice. 
As regards Europe, these birds are plentiful in Iceland, 
the Eerroe Islands, and Spitzbergen, and have occurred also 
on the coasts of France and Holland. In America, they are 
found about Davis’ Straits, Baffin’s Bay, Hudson’s Bay, 
Newfoundland, the Bay of Fundy, and Greenland, at Grimsey 
Island. 
The Fulmar breeds on Barra, Borrera, and Soay, in the 
Hebrides, as also at St. Hilda’s ‘lonely isle,’ where they abound 
in almost incredible numbers, and are said to be the most 
important to the inhabitants of all their natural productions. 
Pennant remarks, ‘No bird is of such use to the islanders as 
this: the Fulmar supplies them with oil for their lamps, down 
for their beds, a delicacy for their tables, a balm for their 
wounds, and a medicine for their distempers.’ The inhabitants 
frequently risk their lives in order to obtain their eggs also, 
as well as the birds themselves. 
In Norfolk, the Fulmar has been occasionally shot in 
Yarmouth Roads; two were taken twenty miles at sea, Decem¬ 
ber 18th., 1844. Some few specimens on the coast of Durham. 
In Essex, one was obtained at Saffron Walden. In Yorkshire, 
one was shot at Burlington, in 1849; the species was said 
not to have occurred there before for forty years. Some 
