PETREL. NATATORES. PROCELLARIA. 525 



FULMAR PETREL. 



PROCELLARIA GLACIALIS^ Linn. 

 PLATE CII." 



Procellaria glacialis, Linn. Syst. 1. 213. 3.Gmel. Syst. 1. 562 Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 823. sp. 9. Sabine, in Linn. Trans. 12. 553 Flem. Br. Anim. 



1. 135. No. 217- 



Procellaria cinerea, Briss. 6. 143. 2. t. 12. f. 2. 

 Fulmarus glacialis, Steph. Zool. 13. 234. pi. 27. 

 Fulmar, ou Petrel puffin-gris blanc, Buff. Ois. 9. 325. t. 22. 

 Petrel de 1'Isle de St Kilda, Buff. PI. Enl. 59. 

 Petrel Fulmar, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 802. 

 Fulmar Petrel, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 549. No. 257. pi- 91 Arct. Zool. 2. 



No. 461 Lath. Syn. 6. 403. 9 Lewirfs Br. Birds, 6. pi. 217 Mont. 



Orn. Diet, and Sup. BewicVs Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 259. 

 Northern Fulmar, Shaw's Zool. 13. 234. pi. 27- 



PROVINCIAL Mallemuck, Malmoke, Mallduck. 



THE steep and rocky St Kilda, one of the western islands 

 of Scotland, is the only locality within the British dominions 

 annually resorted to by the Fulmar, the rest of the Scottish? 

 and our more southern coasts, being rarely visited even by 

 stragglers. Upon St Kilda these birds are found in vast 

 numbers during the spring and summer months, breeding in 

 the caverns and holes of the rocks ; and, from the various 

 uses to which the down, feathers, and oil of the young are 

 applied, contribute essentially to the comfort of the inhabit- 

 ants. They lay but one egg each, white, and of a large size, Incuba- 

 with a shell of very brittle texture. The young are hatched tlon ' &c - 

 about the middle of June, and are fed with oil thrown up 

 by the parents (the produce of the food upon which they 

 subsist), and, as soon as fledged, are eagerly sought for by 

 the natives, although often at the risk of life, in scaling the 

 tremendous and overhanging cliffs in which they nestle. 

 Like most of the group, these birds have the power of eject- 

 ing oil with much force through their tubular nostrils, which 

 is used as the principal mode of defence ; it becomes an es- 



