F U L M A R .
PULHAR PETREL. PETREL FULMAR. NORTHERN FULMAR.
MALI.EMOKE. MOLLY.
Ptocelhuia glacialis, LINN.-EUS. GMKI.IN.
" " LATHAM. SABINE. FLEMING.
Proctllaria cinerta, BKISSON.
Fuimarus glacialis, STEPHENS.
Proctllaria. Procella—-A storm. Glacialis—Belonging to ice.
As regards Europe, these birds arc plentiful in Iceland, the Ferroe
Islands, and Spitsbergen, and have occurred also on the coasts of France
and Holland. In America, they are found about Davis* Straits, Baffin's
Bay, Hudson's Bay, Newfoundland, the Bay of Fundy, and Greenland,
at Grimsey Island.
The Fulmar breeds on Barra, Borrera, and Soay, in the Hebrides,
as also at St. Kilda's 'lonely isle,' where they abound in almost incredible
numbers, and arc said to be the most important to the inhabitants of
all their natural productions. Pennant remarks, ' N o bird is of such
use to the islanders as this: the Fulmar supplies them with oil for
their lamps, down for their beds, a delicacy for their tables, a balm '
for their wounds, and a medicine for their distempers.' The inhabitants
frequently risk their lives in order to obtain their eggs also, as well
as the birds themselves.
In Norfolk, the Fulmar has been occasionally shot in Yarmouth Roads;
two were taken twenty miles at sea, December 18th., 1841. Some few
specimens on the coast of Durham. In Essex one was obtained at
Saffron Walden. In Yorkshire, one was shot at Burlington, in 1849;
the species was said not to have occurred there before for forty years.
One picked up dead on the beach at Saltburn-by-thc-Sea, June 19th.,
18fi9; another at Huddersfied, far inland. Some have been shot in
Cornwall, three or four; in Devonshire two. In the countv of Derby,
one was killed October 25th., 1847, in a held near a pool at Mel