764 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



gentlemen concerned in hunting out this specimen, which 

 had so long disappeared " (P.Z.S. 1887, pp. 562-3 ; see also 

 Nat. 1888, p. 156). 



This specimen was used by the late Lord Lilford for the 

 illustration of this species in his splendid work on " British 

 Birds." 



An alleged occurrence of Bulwer's Petrel at Scarborough 

 in spring 1849 (Higgins, fide Graham, ZooL 1849, P- 2569). 

 is unsatisfactory, from the lack of details necessary to sub- 

 stantiate its accuracy. 



FULMAR. 

 Fulmarus glacialis (L.). 



Casual visitant in autumn and winter, rather rare inshore, but in 

 some seasons plentiful on the fishing grounds. Has been occasionally 

 met with in summer. 



Probably the earliest notice relating to the Yorkshire status 

 of this bird is contained in Allis's Report, 1844, thus : 



Procellaria glacialis. Fulmar Petrel Reported by F. O. Morris 

 as uncommon ; by W. Eddison to have been taken near Huddersfield ; 

 by A. Strickland to be rare on the east coast. 



To the Yorkshire deep-sea fishermen the Mollemoke, as 

 it is called by them, is well known in the autumn herring season, 

 when numbers of these birds beset the boats of the smacksmen 

 to take their share of the fish when the nets are being hauled 

 in ; so voracious are they at these times as to often allow 

 themselves to be taken by hand on the decks of the smacks. 



In November 1868 it was particularly numerous in the 

 offing, as reported by the fishermen (ZooL 1869, pp. 1518-19), 

 and off Flamborough in 1872 many were captured on the 

 fishing grounds and brought in by the boatmen. On the coast, 

 that is, near the shore, it is a casual visitant, chiefly in autumn 

 and winter, and generally after storms at sea, when it is driven 

 in by stress of weather, and found dead or in an exhausted 

 state ; an opinion has been expressed that these are weak 



