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the upper plumage is of a very dark chocolate brown, nearly black, 
with a bright metallic gloss, while the feet in the females are pink, 
and black in the males—the last also acquiring a bright scarlet 
pouch, capable of inflation, and being perceptible when on the 
wing. The habits of F. minor seem wholly to resemble those of 
F. aquila. According to Bechstein (Orn. Taschenb. pp. 393, 394), 
an example of this last species was obtained at the mouth of the 
Weser in the winter of 1792, and it has hence been included by 
some ornithologists among European birds ! 
FROG-MOUTH, Jerdon’s rendering (B. Ind. i. p. 189), since 
adopted by Anglo-Indian writers, of Gould’s Batrachostomus, a genus 
which he instituted in 1838 (Lcones Avium, pt. ii.) for some NIGHT- 
JARS, apparently allied to Podargus (MoREPORK), and found in 
India and some parts of the Malay Archipelago. 
FULFER, a corrupt form of FIELDFARE. 
FULMAR, from the Gaelic Falmair or Fulmaire, the Fulmarus 
glacialis of modern ornithologists, one of the largest of the Pro- 
cellartidex (PETRELS) of the northern hemisphere, being about the 
size of the Common Gull (Larus canus) and not unlike it in general 
coloration, except that its primaries are grey instead of black. 
This bird, which ranges over the North Atlantic, is seldom seen on 
the European side below lat. 53° N., but on the American side 
comes habitually to lat. 45°, or even lower. It has been commonly 
believed to have two breeding-places in the British Islands, 
namely, the group of islands collectively known as St. Kilda, and 
South Barra; but, according to the late Mr. Robert Gray (B. WV. 
Scotl. p. 499), it has abandoned the latter since 1844, while he was 
assured of its now breeding in Skye.t Northward it established 
itself about 1838 on Myggenzs Holm, one of the Feroes, while it 
has several stations off the coast of Iceland and Spitsbergen, as 
well as at Bear Island. Its range towards the pole seems to be 
only bounded by open water, and it is the constant attendant upon 
all who are employed in the whale- and seal-fisheries, shewing the 
greatest boldness in approaching boats and ships, and feeding on 
the offal obtained from them. By our seamen it is commonly 
ealled the “ Molly Mawk” ? (corrupted from the Dutch Mallemugge), 
and is extremely well known to them, its flight, as it skims over 
the waves first with a few beats of the wings and then gliding for 
a long way, being very peculiar. It only visits the land to deposit 
its single white egg, which is laid on a rocky ledge, where a 
1 Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley (Vert. Faun. Out. Hebrid. p. 157) 
mention a report of a settlement of the species having been effected in the 
Flannan Islands, but proof of it is wanting. There is, however, reason to believe 
that it breeds in North Rona. 
2 A name misapplied in the southern hemisphere to some of the smaller 
species of ALBATROS (see MALLEMUCK). 
