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until we reach its breeding stations at St. Kilda and 
the Outer Hebrides. Mr. Yarrell, among his useful 
ornithological statistics, has given us instances of 
specimens being obtained in Durham, Essex, and 
Cornwall ; while we have accounts of the bird by 
all the voyagers wdio have visited St. Kilda, from 
M. Martin, Gent, in Ki98, to James Wilson, Esq. in 
1842. The first states, “ The inhabitants prefer this, 
whether young or old, to all others ; the old has a 
delicate taste, being a mixture of fat and lean, the 
flesh white." The latter writes, “ The Kildeans 
use tho oil afforded by the stomach as a catholic um 
for diseases, especially for any aching of the bones, 
stitches,” &c. 
In Middle Europe, it sparingly frequents the seas, 
as it does on the south of England ; it is found and 
breeds on the Feroe Islands, Spitzbergen, Iceland, 
Davis Straits, Hudson’s Bay, and arctic latitudes 
generally, and is well known to the whalers as a 
constant attendant on the stricken whale, feed- 
ing voraciously on the carcasses after the flensing 
operations have terminated. 
Audubon, however, saw the Fulmar on the 
American coast, south of Long Island ; he was dis- 
appointed in not meeting with it on the shores 
of Labrador, but found it breeding on the Seal 
Islands off the Bay of Fundy. 
The form of tho Fulmar is that of a strong-built 
gull ; and the appearance is strengthened by the 
similarity of plumage. 
A specimen, received by the attention of Mr. 
