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27. OILS AND FATS—Continued. 
b. Bird-oils: 
Goose-oil used by watch-makers, and as an emollient. 
(Oil of guacharo, (Steatornis caripensis,) used in South Amer- 
ica as food.) 
{Ostrich used for food,and by the Arabs in medicine, and 
emu-oil used in Australia in medicine.) 
(Oil of penguin, (Diomedea chilensis,) of Falkland Islands, 
sold in London for currying leather.) 
(Peacock’s fat and oil.) 
(Oil of mutton-bird, (Procellaria obscura,) of Bass’s Straits, 
used for lamp-oil illuminating.) 
(Oil of frigate-bird, (Tachypetes aquila,) sometimes used in 
medicine.) 
Oil of pigeon, (ctopistes migratorius,) used as food by In- 
dians and frontiersmen. 
(Fulmar-oil from island of Saint Kilda.) 
c. Reptile oils: ; 
Alligator-oil manufactured in Florida. 
(Alligator-oil used by South American Indians, mixed with 
chica pigment for painting their bodies.) 
Turtle-oil made from turtle-eggs, used in dressing leather 
and in manufacture of soap. 
Rattlesnake and other snake oils. 
-d. Fish-oils : 
Sun-fish oil used by fishermen for cure of rheumatism. 
Cod-oil, also cod-liver oil used in medicine, as a food and 
emollient, and in lubricating. 
Hake and haddock liver oil used in adulterating cod-liver oil. 
(Pollock-oil used by Shetlanders for illumination.) 
Menhaden-oil used in currying leather, in rope making, for 
lubricating, for adulterating linseed-oil, as a paint-oil, and 
exported to Europe for use in the manufacture of soap and 
for smearing sheep. 
Herring-oil! 
White-fish oil. 
Sturgeon-oil.? 
(! NoTr.—These oils, with other oils made from fishes, and a large part of the seal 
aud “black” whale oil, are known indiscriminately as fish-oil and used chiefly for the 
purposes enumerated under the head of menhaden-oil.) 
