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ai.len’s naturalist’s library, 
Range In Great Britain. — The Fulmar breeds in some of the 
islands of the Hebrides, one notable breeding-place being 
S. Kilda. It also nests on Foula, in the Shetlands. Other- 
wise the species is a winter visitor to Britain. 
Range outside the British Islands. — The present species is 
found in the North Atlantic from Baffin Bay and Greenland 
to Iceland, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya, and Franz-Josef 
Land. In winter it comes south and occurs in America off 
the New England coast, and, according to Mr. Saunders, down 
to about Lat. 43 '^ in European waters. 
Habits. — Mr. A. H. Cocks has given the following account 
of the Fulmar on the west coast of Spitsbergen : — 
“At Magdalena Bay we found a ‘White-Whaler’ lying, 
with skins of this cetacean floating in the .sea all round her, 
preparatory to being stowed away in her hold. Swarms of 
Fulmars were swimming close round the vessel’s sides, 
elbowing and jostling each other, gorging on the scraps of 
blubber they obtained from the skins, and as tame as domestic 
poultry. We found we could catch them with a hook and line, 
baiting with a small scrap of ‘ spek,’ literally almost as fast as 
we could haul them on board. 
“ On shooting some Ivory Gulls at this place, which 
dropped into the water, it was only by keeping up an unre- 
mitting cannonade of stones that I could keep the Fulmars 
off them until I could secure my specimens, d'hey were 
common as far north as we went, and were among the few 
species of birds observed among the ice we met with about 
the latitude of Bear Island on our way south (4th of August), 
rhere were still a few every now and then after we were in 
sight of the Norwegian coast on the 6th, and the last I saw 
of this species was near the head of Lyngen Fjord (east of 
1 romso), on the 25th of August. To the collector, the Fulmar 
Petrel is by far the most troublesome bird I have yet made 
the acquaintance of, from its habit, when shot, of ejecting an 
oily fluid from its mouth, which stains the plumage. I selected 
my specimens, and then took the utmost care in handling 
them, but one is never safe until the skin has been actually 
removed.” 
