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THE FULMAR: ITS PAST AND PRESENT STATUS 
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND IN THE 
NORTHERN PARTS OF EUROPE AND NORTH 
AMERICA, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF ITS 
GREAT INCREASE IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
By J. A. Harviz-Brown. 
InTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
Berore speaking directly to the subject of this paper, under 
its full heading, we desire to set at rest, if that be possibie, 
some very old and serious misconceptions and errors which 
have had some effect upon not unimportant statements in the 
life-history of the Fulmar. 
Much as we—and all who go down to the sea in ships— 
must feel indebted to Captains Thomas and Otter for their admir- 
able surveys of the seas and isles, stacks and skerries, of the 
West Coast of Scotland, there still remain uncharted many 
sunken reefs and unnamed dangers. And besides, there are the 
names of certain others which have handed down confusion 
even to the very present time, this confusion becoming even 
worse confounded with almost every repetition or requotation. 
But the same causes of confusion which still exist to-day—as we 
hope finally to show—are those self-same causes of the original 
confusion dating back—in at least one case—as long as 1746, 
and how much longer we cannot now say. 
The first we speak of may not have been caused by quite 
such ancient misapprehension, and the results may not have de- 
veloped such important consequences, but it does apply directly 
to the subject of our particular study—‘‘ The Fulmar and its 
Status, &c.”’ Captains Thomas and Otter did distinguish in 
this instance, and any confusion since ought not to be laid to 
their charge. The islands we speak of are North Ronay and 
North Barray (the latter likewise correctly termed Sulisgeir). 
