132 A CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS 



Two adult birds witli crests, in my collection, were shot on 

 the JN'orthnmberland coast. 



Family. PEOCELLAEID.E, Bole. 

 133. PROCELLARIA, Limmus. 



4. FuLMAii. P. GLACiALis, Linnceus. 



Proeellaria glacialis, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 

 225. 



Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, III., 619. 



A rare casual -visitant. Many years ago I found a specimen 

 washed up on Whitley Sands. Another example in my collec- 

 tion was picked up alive on the sands near Whitburn, on the 

 11th of October, 1850; it was in a sickly condition, but not 

 wounded. A second specimen was found dead in the same lo- 

 cality, March, 1869; and an example, now in the collection of 

 Mr. Raine, of Durham, was picked up dead on the sands at Bam- 

 borough, Noyember, 1872. 



Mr. J. H. Gui'ney, Jun., informs me that he obtained a speci- 

 men of a Eulmar that was taken, in an exhausted state, on the 

 beach at Sunderland, September, 1868; it weighed only four- 

 teen ounces, was quite destitute of oil, and had not been shot or 

 otherwise injured. The same gentleman received, in the follow- 

 ing November, four other examples that had been captured off 

 Scarborough by the fishermen ; they took them by hand on the 

 decks of their boats. This mode of capture quite accords with 

 the account given by the Greenland whalers, who are able to 

 procure any number of them when they are cutting or "flinch- 

 ing" the blubber, for then the "Mallemoke," as they call it 

 comes to feed, and so intent is it on its repast that it will allow 

 itself to be knocked over or captured by the hand. 



