PETREL. NATATORES. PROCELLARIA. 525 
FULMAR PETREL. 
ProcettariéA GLAcrALis, Linn. 
BEATE lin =? 
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. pl. 27. 
Fulmar, ou Petrel puffin-gris blanc, Buff: Ois. 9. 325. t. 22. 
Petrel de l’Isle de St Kilda, Buf: Pl. Enl. 59. 
Petrel Fulmar, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. 802. 
Fulmar Petrel, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 549. No. 257. pl. 91.—Arct. Zool. 2. ° 
No. 461.—Lath. Syn. 6. 403. 9.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 6. pl. 217.—Mont. 
Orn. Dict. and Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 259. 
Northern Fulmar, Shaw’s Zool. 13. 234. pl. 27. 
Provinc1at—Mallemuck, Malmoke, Mallduck. 
Tue 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 ton, &e. 
about the middle of June, and are fed with of] 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- 
