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having the first quill of moderate length or almost obsolete, the second 

 shorter than the third, the fourth and fifth the longest.* 



PASSENGER PIGEON (Columba migrator ia.) 



* Wils. Amer. Orn. 5. p. 102. pi. 44. fig. 1 Flem. Br. Anim. p. 145. 6. 



This bird was shot while perched on a wall near a pigeon-house, at 

 West Hall, Monymeal, Fifeshire, on the 31st December, 1825.* 



PASSERES (Linn^us.) — "Sparrows or small birds in general.* 



PASSERINE (Latham.)—* Sparrow-like birds.* 



PASTOR (Temminck.) — * Ouzel, a genus thus characterised. Bill 

 conic, scimitar-shaped, compressed, slightly arched, and the point 

 notched; nostrils at the sides of the base oval, partly covered by a 

 membrane, and clothed with small feathers ; shank considerably longer 

 than the middle toe ; feet strong, with three toes before and one be- 

 hind, the outer toe joined at its base to the middle one ; wings having 

 the first quill very short, and the second and third the longest.* 



PEASE CROW.— A name for the Tern. 



PEESE WEEP.— A name for the Lapwing. 



PEGGY CUT-THROAT.— A name for the Whitethroat. 



PELECANUS (Linnaeus.) — A genus of birds of which only one 

 species has been seen in this country. The Pelecanus Onocretulus, 

 Temminck, was shot at Horsey Fen in 1663, and that in all probability 

 one belonging to the King, which escaped from St. James's about that 

 time ; it measured three yards from tip to tip of the wings. 



PENGUIN.— A name for the Awk. 



PENRITH OUZEL. — The Dipper in its immature plumage. 



PERCHERS *(Insessores, Vigors.) — A group of birds, including 

 the Woodpeckers, {Piece, Linnaeus,) and the small birds (Passeres, 

 Linnaeus.) The name is any thing but distinctive ; for most Raptores, 

 Gallinse, and even Waders and Swimmers perch.* 



PERDIX (Latham.) — * Partridge, a genus thus characterised. 

 Bill short, strong, naked at the base ; upper mandible convex, with the 

 point bending considerably downwards ; nostrils at the sides of the 

 base, pierced in a large membrane, and partly concealed by an arched 

 naked scale ; wings short and concave, the three first quills, in most 

 species, shorter than the fourth and fifth, which are the longest in the 

 wing; tail, of fourteen or eighteen feathers, short and generally bending 

 towards the ground ; feet with three toes before, united by a membrane 

 as far as the first articulation, and with one hind toe ; shank, in the 

 male bird, frequently furnished with one, or more than one, spur or 

 knob.* 



PEWIT. — A name for the Lapwing. 



