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retain a cli.sagreeablo odour. The Fulmar must be considered a 
voracious bird. A fisherman, wlio shot one in Xovember, 1879 
(a very fine light-coloured bird), tells me he captured it by soaking 
a piece of oakum in colza oil and throwing it overboard into the 
sea, when the Fulmar, seeing the track of grease on the water, 
seized tlie lump of oakum and swallowed it, and was shot in the 
act of doing so.* As to the dark specimens I have had, I consider 
them to bo immature, as the bill does not appear to be so strong or 
horny as in the lij^diter ones I have seen; but Mr. Howard Saunders’ 
remarks should be consulted {l.c. pp. 4, o). The note, or rather 
noise, matio by the Fulmar when disturbed is a chuckchuclchui 
sound. It appears n<»t to like fresh water much, seldom, if ever, 
going into it of its own accord. Salt water would naturally suit such 
an oceanic species best. "When I first had my bird, I put it into 
the dull tank in my garden, but it evidently did not care much 
for its bath, and appeared unable to stand the water long. The 
logs of the Fulmar are very tender, and this is the great difficulty 
in keeping them in confinement. The bird, Avhose doings are hen* 
described, M'as di.ssected after death, and proved to be a male. 
* [Mr. W. Pycraft, of Great Yarmouth, obtained in November, 1885, 
from the stomach of one of the Fulmar Petrels, mentioned by Mr. Smith, 
a stout barbed steel fish-hook two and a half inches in length, or four 
inches following the curve, and twenty-eight inches of twisted cord 
attached to it. .After taking this hook with the bait, the Fulmar 
actually swallowed a second, thrown from the fishing-smack, and wa.s 
oaptureil.— J. II. GruNEV, Ji n.] 
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