FULMAR. 



FULMAR PETREL. PETREL FULMAR. NORTHERN FULMAR. 

 MALLEMOKE. MOLLY. 



ProceUaria glacialis, LINNAEUS. 



" " LATHAM. SABINE. FLEMING. 



cinerea, BRISSON. 



Fulmarus glacialis, STEPHENS. 



ProceUaria. ProcellaA storm. Glacialis Belonging to ice. 



As regards Europe, these birds are plentiful in Iceland, 

 the Ferroe Islands, and Spitzbergen, and have occurred also 

 on the coasts of France and Holland. In America, they are 

 found about Davis' Straits, Baffin's Bay, Hudson's Bay, 

 Newfoundland, the Bay of Fundy, and Greenland, at Grimsey 

 Island. 



The Fulmar breeds on Barra, Borrera, and Soay, in the 

 Hebrides, as also at St. Kilda's 'lonely isle,' where they abound 

 in almost incredible numbers, and are said to be the most 

 important to the inhabitants of all their natural productions. 

 Pennant remarks, 'No bird is of such use to the islanders as 

 this: the Fulmar supplies them with oil for their lamps, down 

 for their beds, a delicacy for their tables, a balm for their 

 wounds, and a medicine for their distempers.' The inhabitants 

 frequently risk their lives in order to obtain their eggs also, 

 as well as the birds themselves. 



In Norfolk, the Fulmar has been occasionally shot in 

 Yarmouth Roads; two were taken twenty miles at sea, Decem- 

 ber 18th., 1844. Some few specimens on the coast of Durham. 

 In Essex, one was obtained at Saffron Walden. In Yorkshire, 

 one was shot at Burlington, in 1849; the species was said 

 not to have occurred there before for forty years. Some 



