With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . MARTINS FULMAR. I*. W T --^m^m ^^ j^^iJm^i- mf- ?^. FULMAR PETREL ON NEST. 118 WITH XATVEE AND A GAM Eli A. as an old chronicler records that A gentleman ofthe name of Campbell being fowling among therocks of Mull, and having momited a ladder totake some birds out of their holes, was so surprisedby one of them squirting a quantity of oil in hisface that he quitted his hold and fell down andperished. Although the name of the bird is notmentioned specifically, I think that the use o
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . MARTINS FULMAR. I*. W T --^m^m ^^ j^^iJm^i- mf- ?^. FULMAR PETREL ON NEST. 118 WITH XATVEE AND A GAM Eli A. as an old chronicler records that A gentleman ofthe name of Campbell being fowling among therocks of Mull, and having momited a ladder totake some birds out of their holes, was so surprisedby one of them squirting a quantity of oil in hisface that he quitted his hold and fell down andperished. Although the name of the bird is notmentioned specifically, I think that the use of tlieladder almost proves that it was a Fulmars nestwhich the unfortunate fowler was raiding. Within the nineteenth century the bird has estab-lished itself as a breeding species in the Faroes tothe detriment of the Gannet, and only as far backas 1878 it founded a breeding colony in theShetlands. Seton quotes two opinions of the bird,which placed side by side appear to be ridiculouslycontradictory. The St. Kildan proudly says ofit, Can the world exhibit a more valuable com-modity ? The Fulmar furnishes oil for the lamp,down for the bed, the most salubrious fo
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