BRITISH BIRDS 



It breeds on various islands in the Southern Pacific, and in the Atlantic Ocean 

 as near our coast as the Salvages, north of the Canaries, where Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 found the birds nesting abundantly in April 1895. The one egg, in ground-colour 

 white, minutely spotted and zoned with purplish and reddish dots, is laid in a 

 burrow, and from this retreat the bird, being nocturnal in its habits, sallies forth 

 at dark. 



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