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FULMAR
, from the Gaelic Fulmaire, the Fulmarus glacialis of See also:modern ornithologists, one of the largest of the petrels (Procellariidae) of the See also:northern hemisphere, being about the See also:size of the See also:common See also:gull (Larus canus) and not unlike it in See also:general coloration, except that its primaries are See also:grey instead of See also:black
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This See also:bird, which ranges over the See also:North See also:Atlantic, is seldom seen on the See also:European See also:side below See also:lat
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530 N., but on the See also:American side comes habitually to lat
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45°or even See also:lower
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In the Pacific it is represented by a scarcely separable See also:form, F. glupischa
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It has been commonly believed to have two breeding-places in the See also:British Islands, namely, St Kilda and See also:South See also:Barra; but, according to See also:Robert See also: In St Kilda a large number of the young are killed in one See also:week of See also:August, the only See also:time when, by the See also:custom of the community, they are allowed to be taken . These, after the oil is extracted from them, serve the islanders with See also:food for the See also:winter . The oil has been chemically analysed and found to be a See also:fish-oil, and to possess nearly all the qualities of that obtained from the See also:liver of the See also:cod, with a lighter specific gravity . It, however, has an extremely strong See also:scent, which is said by those who have visited St Kilda to pervade every thing and See also:person on the island, and is certainly retained by an egg or skin of the bird for many years . Whenever a live example is seized in the See also:hand it ejects a considerable quantity of this oil from its mouth . |
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