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Thread #26274 Message #2834270
Posted By: Jim Dixon
09-Feb-10 - 01:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mollymauk / Mollymawk (Bob Watson)
Subject: RE: Song Help: Mollymauk (was: Southern Ocean)
From The Sailor's Word-Book by William Henry Smyth (London: Blackie and Son, 1867), page 465:
MALLEMAK, or Mollymauk. A sea-bird; the Procellaria glacialis, called also fulmar (which see).
[page 327:]
FULMAR. A web-footed sea-bird, Procellaria glacialis, of the petrel kind, larger than the common gull; its eggs are taken in great quantity at St. Kilda and in the Shetlands.
[Procellaria glacialis seems to be an obsolete name. My best guess is, it corresponds to Fulmarus glacialis, or Northern fulmar.]