FULMAR PETREL. 
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NATATORES. 
LARI DM. 
PLATE CCCXVI. 
FULMAR PETREL. 
PROCELLARIA GLACIALIS. 
The Fulmar Petrel is an annual visitant on the island of 
St. Kilda, and some of the other Scottish islands in that 
neighbourhood. Pennant remarks, “ no bird is of such use 
to the islanders as this ; the Fulmar supplies them with oil 
for their lamps, down for their beds, a delicacy for their 
tables, a balm for their wounds, and a medicine for their 
distempers.” 
The numbers that breed in the island of St. Kilda are very 
great, and the inhabitants frequently risk their lives in order 
to obtain their eggs. 
This species is, as its name implies, an inhabitant of the 
frigid zones, both of the northern and southern hemispheres, 
and not often met with in the more temperate climates ; 
stragglers have occasionally visited the several coasts of Eng¬ 
land and of Holland, but only when driven thither by heavy 
gales of wind. 
The habits of the Fulmar Petrel are peculiar to itself; it 
