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EULMAE. 



FULMAR PETREL. NORTHERN FULMAR. PETREL FULMAR. 



PLATE CCXXX. 







Procellaria glacialis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



THE Fulmar builds on the small grassy shelves that occur on the 

 front of high and inaccessible precipices, the result of the dilapidations 

 that time works in even the hardest rock. Numberless pairs of these 

 birds build close together. 



A slight hollow in the turf, lined with grass and tufts of the sea- 

 pink, forms the nest. 



The single egg is of very large size, white, and of a brittle texture. 



The young are hatched about the middle of June, the eggs having 

 been laid the beginning of that month. 



The Eev. H. B. Tristram obtained this egg from Iceland, and has 

 obligingly given me the use of it for this work. 



VOL. m. 



