FULMAR

an Arctic sea-bird (fulmar us glacial is) of the family Pro cellar i idee or petrels, about the size of a large duck. It inhabits the northern seas in prodigious numbers, breeding in Iceland, Green land, Spitz bergen, the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and the He brides. It feeds on fish, the blubber of whales, and any fat, putrid, floating substance that comes in its way. It makes its nest on saacliffs, and lays only one egg. The natives of St. Kilda valued the eggs above those of any other bird. The fulmar is also valued for its feathers and down, and for the oil found in its stomach, which was one of the principal products of St. Kilda. When caught or a ailed, it lightens itself by disgorging the oil from its stomach. There is a second and larger species (fF. pacijficus) found in the Pacific Ocean, and a third (F. glacialioides) in the Antarctic. FUL’MINATE. word meaning to explode and used in that sense by scientists. Fulminate of mercury is a powerful explosive used in percu ion caps and detonators. Fulminic acid is found with mercury and other metals, but never alone.