FULMAR.
FULMARUS GLACIALIS (Linn.).
Procellaria glacialis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 213; Naum. x. p. 589;
Hewitson, ii. p. 512.
Fulmarus glacialis, Macg. v. p. 4 2 9 ; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 1;
Dresser, viii. p. 535.
Petrel Fulmar, French; Eis Meioensturmvogel, German;
Is-Stormfugl, Danish; IFeavhestur, Fseroese; Fylingur
Fill, Islandic ; Havhest Stormfugl, Norwegian.
A species of the North Atlantic Ocean, an allied form
taking its place in the Pacific.
The Fulmar has long been known to breed on the
islands of the St. Kilda group, and, of late years, on
Foula and Papa Stour in the Shetlands, as well as on
several of the Faeroes. At other seasons birds are found
occasionally all round our coasts.
Besides the birds of normal colour, as depicted in the
foreground of the Plate, others of varying shades of
nearly uniform slate-colour are not uncommon mingled
with the ordinary form. Such a bird is shown standing
on a rock on the left of the Plate. A rarer form is
pure white, and a few birds in this dress appear at
St. Kilda every year, where several have been taken.
The Fulmar is certainly increasing in numbers and
establishing fresh breeding-stations on our northern
outlying islands. The colours of the bill, eye, and feet
in the Plate were taken by Mr. Thorburn from a sketch
made at the request of Lord Lilford by Prof. Newton at
St. Kilda, 25th June, 1895. [O. S.]