PUFFINID. 751 
THE FULMAR. 
FULMARUS GLACIALIS (Linnaus). 
This Petrel is seldom met with near the southern and western 
coasts of England except during the colder months, and even then 
chiefly after tempestuous weather, when it is sometimes driven far 
inland ; but on the fishing-grounds about thirty miles off the east 
coast it is by no means uncommon, and, when the herring-nets 
are being hauled, birds are sometimes taken by the hand, owing 
to their voracity. In Ireland few examples have actually been 
obtained, but I have seen plenty within eight hours by steamer from 
Lough Foyle. In Scotland, where the Fulmar is frequently observed 
in winter, it has long been known to breed in the St. Kilda group, 
and has been seen in summer round the Flannans and North Rona; 
while in the Shetlands, where it began to nest on Foula in June 1878, 
it has now spread to Papa Stour, Esha Ness, and two places in Unst, 
and had reached the Noup of Noss by the summer of 1898. 
In the Feroes, where the Fulmar was first noticed as a breeding- 
species about 1839, itis now common. Judging by the descriptions 
