. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . m 3/ *. --^ ■ */ 316 FULMAR PETREL. 181 NA TA TORES. LA TtlD/E. PLATE CCCXVI. FULMAR PETREL. PROCELLARIA GLACIALIS. The Fulmar Petrel is an annual visitant on the island ofSt. Kilda, and some of the other Scottish islands in thatneighbourhood. Pennant remarks, no bird is of such useto the islanders as this ; the Fulmar supplies them with oilfor their lamps, down for their beds, a delicacy for theirtables, a balm for their wounds, and a medicine for theirdistempers. The numbers that breed in the island of St. Kilda are verygreat, and t

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. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . m 3/ *. --^ ■ */ 316 FULMAR PETREL. 181 NA TA TORES. LA TtlD/E. PLATE CCCXVI. FULMAR PETREL. PROCELLARIA GLACIALIS. The Fulmar Petrel is an annual visitant on the island ofSt. Kilda, and some of the other Scottish islands in thatneighbourhood. Pennant remarks, no bird is of such useto the islanders as this ; the Fulmar supplies them with oilfor their lamps, down for their beds, a delicacy for theirtables, a balm for their wounds, and a medicine for theirdistempers. The numbers that breed in the island of St. Kilda are verygreat, and the inhabitants frequently risk their lives in orderto obtain their eggs. This species is, as its name implies, an inhabitant of thefrigid zones, both of the northern and southern hemispheres,and not often met with in the more temperate climates ;stragglers have occasionally visited the several coasts of Eng-land and of Holland, but only when driven thither by heavygales of wind. The habits of the Fulmar Petrel are peculiar to itself; it 182 LABIDE. passes all i

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