BRITISH BIRDS. 
24S 
nerally fliare; for when the huge animal is no 
longer able to fink, the Fulmars, in muldtudes, 
alight upon it, and ravenoufly pluck off and devour 
lumps of the blubber, until they can hold no more. 
The female is faid to lay only one large white 
and very brittle egg, which flie hatches about the 
middle of June. 
