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LARIPiE. 
NAT A TORES. 
LARI DAE. 
FULMAR PETREL. 
Procellaria glacialis. 
PLATE CXLIV. FIG. II. 
The Fulmar Petrel is a very local bird during tlie 
breeding-season, being then confined in this country to 
three or four places only, and these all near together. 
Mr. Atkinson met with them in great numbers on the 
islands of St. Kilda, Borrera, and Soa, and was informed 
that they also breed in the south isles of Barra, in the 
Outer Hebrides. The Fulmar Petrels begin to lay their 
eggs during the first week of June, which, as well as the 
birds themselves, are taken in great numbers by the in¬ 
habitants for food—the sea birds and their eggs forming 
the almost only means of subsistence of these islanders. 
The egg of the Fulmar is remarkably large, and equals 
in size those of the skua and herring gulls, and is about 
twice as large as those of the kittiwake, whilst the birds 
themselves are nearly of the same size. The eggs of the 
birds of this genus are always very easily identified from 
those of all other species by a strong musky smell, which 
they retain for a length of time. 
Mr. Wolley, who has dangled amongst the Fulmars 
at a rope's end, over one of the highest cliffs of Feroe, 
tells me with a something very like gusto, that the face 
