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BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



sounds with a clay tobacco pipe I can call the 

 birds to me. Local and other names : French- 

 man, French Partridge, Guernsey Partridge. A 

 close sitter. 



PEEWIT. See LAPWING. 



PETREL, FULMAR. 



(Fulmarus glaciahs.) 

 Order TUBINARES ; Family PROCELLARIID^E (PETRELS). 



Description of Parent 

 Birds. Length about 

 nineteen inches. Beak 

 of medium length, 

 large, strong, nearly 

 straight, with excep- 

 tion of the upper 

 mandible, which is 

 much curved down- 

 wards near the tip. 

 It is of a yellowish 

 colour, with a greenish 

 tinge round the nos- 

 trils. Irides dark brown. Head and the whole 

 of the neck white ; back and wings French grey, 

 except quills, which are darker ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail-quills French grey ; breast, belly, and 

 under-parts white. Legs, toes, and webs pale grey. 

 Many specimens are of an ash-grey or ash-brown 

 tint all over, somewhat darker on the back and 

 wings. 



The female is similar to the male. 



Situation and Locality. On turf-covered shelves 



FULMAR PETREL. 



