440 FULMARUS GLACIALIS. 
T had an additional splice under the arms. In climbing the feet are 
used very much at right angles to the rock, both in ascent or descent. 
Accidents are rare with the rope; but one or two narrow escapes 
were related to me. The rope had not been used that year, as it was 
the very beginning of the Lomvia [Guillemot |-catching, and a party 
were over for the harvest in Store Dimon. There was one weak place 
in the rope of which I did not like the looks. It was a good thick 
tarred rope polished by rubbing on the rocks. 
The dark spot in front of the eye gives a peculiar expression to the 
Fulmar’s face. After I had got to the house, one of the men went 
back with a bit of string and got another Fulmar. We consigned 
the two to the tender mercies of our sailors, but they soon died. The 
eggs were, with one or two exceptions, on the point of hatching, the 
young having even broken a hole in most of them. Sysselmand 
Miiller gave me one or two beside those that I took myself. In flight 
the Fulmar is very marked among the other birds, its wings stretching 
out perfectly straight. The day turned out very windy and we were 
hurried from the rocks, or I should have made'‘other descents. The 
men, however, were very greedy, making bargains about their pay. 
| (It will have been seen that the first part of this long entry, not completed 
till 1850, is mostly made up of a transcript of the original notes, which need 
expansion to be formed into regular sentences ; but I have thought it better to 
leave them as they stand than to attempt any amplification. ] 
§ 5123. One.—Ferde, 1851. From Sysselmand Winther. 
§ 5124. Five-—Feroe, 1853. From Sysselmand Winther. 
§ 5125. Three.—Qvalbée, Suderée, Feerée, not later than 1856. 
From Sysselmand Miiller. 
When I was in Ferée in 1849, the Fulmar bred on Skudée, the 
Great Dimon, and perhaps Sandée. I took eggs on the Great Dimon 
[§ 5121]. Of these eggs extremes in the texture may be observed in 
two, one of so fine a texture that it might almost be suspected if it 
were not for the smell of the inside. 
[There were seven of these sent, but one was sold at Mr. Stevens’s, 22 Feb- 
ruary, 1858, to Mr. Burney, a second, 31 May, 1860, to Mr, Braikenridge, which 
is now in Mr. Parkin’s collection, and I sent two to Dr. Heermann in 1861. } 
