F E T R E L. 4 oj 



ProcelUrja glacial's, Lin. Syft. i. p. 213. z.^-Faun. Suec. N" 144.— Bruit* g, 



Qrn. N°. 1\%.—Mulkr, N° 144.— Faun. GrosnU N" 55. 4- FULMAR P. 



Le Petrel cendre, Brif. Orn. vi. p, 143. 2. pi. 12. fig. 2. 



Le Fulmar, ou Petrel Puffin gris blanc, Buf. Qif. ix. p. 302, pi. 22.— 

 PL Enl. 59. 



Wagellus Cornubienfium, Burgornafter of Groenland, Rati Syn. p. 130. 

 A, 13. 



Haffhert, or Sea Horfe, Will. Orn. p. 393. 



Fulmar, Br. Zoo/, ii. N s 257. pi. 91.— Ar8. Zoo!. N° 461. 



Lev. Muf. 



T E N G T H feventeen inches : weight twenty-two ounces. Description. 



The bill is two inches long, of a pale grey colour, with a 

 yellowifh tip : the back and wing coverts are afh-colour : quills 

 dufky : the reft of the plumage white : legs greyifh yellow : in 

 fome birds the tail is of a pale afh-colour, 



This fpecies is found in the northern parts of Great Britain ; Place an» 

 and from thence as much farther to the north as our travellers 

 have explored. It is in the greateft plenty in the ifle of 67. Kilda, 

 where it appears in November, and continues the whole year, ex- 

 cept the months of September and Oftober. It lays one large 

 white, and very brittle egg j and the young are hatched the 

 middle of June. Very common alfo in Greenland*, and parts 

 adjacent 5 and of great ufe to the inhabitants for food, the 

 fiefh being eaten boiled or dried, for want of better, as it is very 

 (linking and offenfive : the fat is eaten crude, or burned to ferve 

 as oil for their lamps -, and the fmall pouch of the under jaw 



Manners. 



* Breed on the craggy Ihore on the weft of Difco, and other places remote from 

 the continent, in great numbers. — Faun. Groenl. 



3 F 2 formed 



