TIII: n i. MM; //:/;/ 



thTvfon- ly :i curious pntc-ss of iva-sonim: i-- tak.-n fm- ii.s cause. A Bailor OOOe told nn 

 M-r\ frankly, after I li:ul held a short aru'iiim-nt with liirn. llial "lln-v mostly lakes thing* 

 wrong side forrards," ami t*t it i- \viili tin- Stormy IVtn-l, tin- j-ilot lish, and niuuy other 



cn-atun-.s. 



A VKUY much larjypr spwios is th.- FrLMAR PETRKI,. 



This l'.-ln-l N MTV |>|.-ntifnl in tin- i^lainl of St. Kil-la. ami an .-xc.-!!.-!!! arroiint of the 

 !'ii'l an<l it> ini|...iiaii--.- to the inhabitants has been given by Mr. McUillivruy, who visited 





th<- inland in 1800. "This l>ird existM bore in almost inm-diMi- niiMiU-rs. . . It forms 

 om- of tin- ].rim-i|,:il iii.-aii> of snpiM.it to tli,- inhabitant-, who daily rink thir lives in it 

 jmrsuit. Th- Fulmar lnH-ls on tli- fare of tin- highest precipices, and only on such a are 

 furnishM with small, grassy shelves, every spot on which, above a few inches in extent, 

 is occupied with on.- or im.rv of its m-sts. The nest is formed of herbage, seldom bulky, 

 gi'iiiT.illy a im-rv shallow excavation in tin- turf and the withered tufts of the sea-pink, in 

 which the bird deposits a single egg of a pun- whin- color when cln, which is seldom the 

 case." 



Leach's. Hulw.Ts. Black-caj.^*!. I*-ast IMn-]. Wil-.rfs, Hlark r.-tn-l. Ashy. Fork-tail-l, 

 Honit>y's. and \Vhit.--U-lli.-d 1',-ti. | : ,i. .,11 N,,rth Am.-iican binls some of th-m confined 

 to the California ooat and north wanl on the Pacific. 



