210 BIRDS OF THE HUMBEE DISTRICT. 



certain localities often in considerable numbers. The 

 eggs, generally two in number, are placed on the 

 ground, generally in a slight hollow lined with a few 

 pieces of dried grass, and invariably in the neighbour- 

 hood of water. The food of the old birds during the 

 breeding-season is principally the fruit of the common 

 Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) , coleoptera, and small 

 Crustacea. Mr. Wheelwright says he never saw any 

 thing but crowberries in the inside of the young ones 

 (A Spring and Summer in Lapland, p. 357). 



271. PROCELLARIA GLACIALIS (Linnseus). Fulmar 

 Petrel. 



Provincial. Mollymoke. 



Has been obtained on several occasions during the 

 last ten years on our east coast, but always, like so 

 many ocean wanderers, in the autumn or winter 

 months. One, a mature male, sent to Mr. Boulton in 

 1864, was killed on the 29th of October in that year 

 on board a trawler off Flamborough Head (Zoologist, 

 1864, p. 9365). 



In November 1868* Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., had 

 four sent him, each in the flesh, by Mr. Roberts, of 

 Scarborough; they were taken on board a fishing- 

 yawl at sea, the men catching some with hooks, 

 others by hand on the deck of the vessel as they were 

 devouring the herrings. Mr. Gurney states that the 



* Zoologist, 1869, p. 1518. 



