PLATE I 

 STORM PETREL. Procellaria pelagica. 



fitly 3n/, 1897. This Plate shows part of the island of Oxna, off Scalloway, 

 in the Shetlands, where among the stones near the shore many of these little 

 birds rear their young. 



I examined three or four cairns and heaps of stones in this locality, and 

 on every occasion found the old bird on her egg. On being taken in the 

 hand, the bird usually ejected one or two drops of amber-coloured oil. 



At one locality I spent some hours after dusk, and saw hundreds of these 

 birds flying about like bats; they are very noiseless on the wing, except when 

 entering their holes, when one or two sharp beats of the wings are distinctly 

 audible as the bird checks its progress in the air. 



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