FULMERTON, Lady GEORGIANA (1812-85). An English novelist and philanthropist, (laughter of the first Earl of Granville. She was born at Tixall Hall. Staffordshire, and in 1833 married Alexander Fullerton. In 1844 she published her first novel. Ellen Middleton, which was reviewed by Gladstone. Her second work, Grantlcy Manor, setts, or on the southern coasts of Great Brit ain, but breeds in great numbers in Saint Kilda and adjacent islets. It is extraordinarily abun dant about these isles, and is of importance to the inhabitants of Saint Kilda, who esteem its eggs and flesh above those of any other bird, and gather them in the most perilous manner, de scending by ropes from the summit of the preci pices. The fulmars • are also valued for their feathers, down, and oil; the last is one of the principal products of Saint Kilda, and is ob tained from their stomachs. The old are said to feed the young with it, and when they are caught or assailed these birds lighten them selves by disgorging it. It is amber-colored, and
has a peculiar and nauseous odor. Fulmars feed on all animal substances which come in their way, giving an evident preference to fat and delighting in the blubber of whales. Another important species is the giant fulmar (Ossi [rage yigantea), notable for its size, which equals that of a small albatross. It is found in the Pacific Ocean, and is known to sailors as 'bone breaker,' because of the observed crushing power of its great hooked beak. The slender-billed fulmar (Fuimams glacialoides) is a very wide ly ranging form which occurs on the Alaskan coast of Bering Sea. It is of the same size as the common fulmar, but the bill is much longer and more slender. Several of the fulmars are re markable for their dichromatism. See Plate of FISHING BIRDS.