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until we reach its breeding stations at St. Kilda and 

 the Outer Hebrides. Mr. Yarrell, among his useful 

 ornithological statistics, has given us instances of 

 specimens being obtained in Durham, Essex, and 

 Cornwall ; while we have accounts of the bird by 

 all the voyagers who have visited St. Kilda, from 

 M. Martin, Gent, in 1698, to James Wilson, Esq. in 

 1842. The first states, " The inhabitants prefer this, 

 whether young or old, to all others ; the old has a 

 delicate taste, being a mixture of fat and lean, the 

 flesh white." The latter writes, " The Kildeans 

 use the oil afforded by the stomach as a catholic um 

 for diseases, especially for any aching of the bones, 

 stitches," &c. 



In Middle Europe, it sparingly frequents the seas, 

 as it does on the south of England ; it is found and 

 breeds on the Feroe Islands, Spitzbergen, Iceland, 

 Davis Straits, Hudson's Bay, and arctic latitudes 

 generally, and is well known to the whalers as a 

 constant attendant on the stricken whale, feed- 

 ing voraciously on the carcasses after the flensing 

 operations have terminated. 



Audubon, however, saw the Fulmar on the 

 American coast, south of Long Island ; he was dis- 

 appointed in not meeting with it on the shores 

 of Labrador, but found it breeding on the Seal 

 Islands off the Bay of Fundy. 



The form of the Fulmar is that of a strong-built 

 gull; and the appearance is strengthened by the 

 similarity of plumage. 



A specimen, received by the attention of Mr. 



