422, HE ZOOLOGIST. 
her father were made, I was very reluctant to form this conclusion. The 
skull of Mr. Brightwell’s specimen is not in the British Museum, as stated 
in the Museum ‘Catalogue of Seals and Whales, but in the Norwich 
Museum. The error arose, as the late Dr. Gray explained to me, from his 
being under the impression that it was sent to him for the National 
Collection, whereas he was subsequently requested to return it to Norwich. 
I hope to place the skull of the present example also in the Norwich 
collection.—THomas Souruwx1 (Norwich). 
Futmar PetreL BREEDING IN THE IsLE or Fouta.—The announce- 
ment by Mr. Garriock (p. 380) that this species has adopted a breeding 
station in Shetland is so very interesting, that it may not be out of place to 
draw further attention to the subject, more especially as a similar occurrence 
took place in the Froe Islands about 1839. In the year 1849 the late Mr. 
John Wolley visited the latter group, and in a paper read at the meeting of 
the British Association held in Edinburgh, 1850, and subsequently published 
by Sir William Jardine, ‘Contributions to Ornithology,’ 1850 (pp. 106—117), 
thus referred to the appearance of the Fulmar Petrel as a breeding species in 
the Froe Islands :—*TI have to record a very interesting fact with respect 
to the Fulmar, Procellaria glacialis, which has recently adopted some of 
the cliffs of the Fwroe Islands as a summer station. In the time of Landt, ~ 
who wrote in 1799, it was only known to those who fished far from the 
shore, but somewhere about the year 1839 it was observed by the rock- 
climbers breeding, for the first time, near Quelboe in Suderoe, and it has 
since much increased, and is scattered over several spots on the west cliffs 
of the islands of Skuoe and Great Dimon; in the latter place, the cliff in 
which it builds is of great height and quite perpendicular, and the ledges 
are very small and bare. Eight or ten of the nests that I examined con- 
sisted of a few small fragments of rock lining in a slight depression. The 
featherless abdomen of the bird is hollowed into a perfect egg-cup shape 
- during the incubation, so that the single large egg-has the warmth applied 
to it in the most effectual manner. I will not attempt to speculate on the 
reason of this remarkable change of locality in a bird supposed to be so 
constant in its attachment to certain breeding places. It is not found in 
Shetland or Orkney. St. Kilda is perhaps its only British, and also its 
most southern, station. It is, however, said to breed on the island of Barra, 
perhaps not South Barra, but Bara aud Rona, two rocks far to the north 
of Cape Wrath and the Lewes, whose position was ascertained with accuracy 
in one of Parry’s Arctic Voyages.” Sir Edward Parry’s observation, 
referred to by Mr. John Wolley, was taken on the 31st May, 1824, on his 
outward voyage to the Arctic Regions, in H.M. ships ‘ Heckla’ and ‘ Fury,’ 
and the west eud of Bara is placed by that distinguished navigator in 
