390 PULVERISING. 



with rufous-brown, something larger than those of the partridge. It is 

 by no means a shy bird, but will suffer the sportsman to approach very 

 near. The herdsmen frequently knock them down with sticks. In 

 winter they assemble together in flocks. They are called birch par- 

 tridges in Nova Scotia ; with us white game, or white partridge. 



We are inclined to believe the white partridge of Mr. Edwards is a 

 mere variety of this bird, contrary to the opinion of that great natu- 

 ralist, Mr. Pennant, who says he has received both from Norway. But 

 with the most diligent inquiry, we cannot find more than one species 

 known in that country, where they are called Rype, but pronounced 

 Reuper ; and in the many we have seen, no specific distinction could be 

 discovered. 



PUCKERIDGE. — A name for the Nightjar. 

 PUFFIN {Puffinus Anglorum, Ray.) 



Procellaiia Puffinus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 213. 6 Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 566.— Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. p. 824. 11 — Briss. 6. 131. 1.— /6.8vo. 2. p. 395.— Puffinus Anglorum, 



Raii, Syn. p. 134. A. 4.— Will, p. 252 —Flem. Br. Anim. p. 137 Avis Deo- 



media, Shearwater, Raii, Syn. p. 133. 1. and A. 2.— Will. p. 251. —Ib. (Angl.) 



p. 332. 334 Le Puffin, Buff. Ois. 9. p. 321.— Procellaria Anglorum, Temm. 



Man. d'Orn. 2. p. 806 Manks Puffin, Edw. t. 379 Will. (Angl.) p. 333 



Shearwater Petrel, Br. Zool. 2. No. 258.-16. fob 146. t. M.— Arct. Zool. 2. 



No. 462 — Lath. Syn. 6. p. 406. 11—16. Supp. p. 269 Lewin's Br. Birds, 6. 



t. 218 Wale. Syn. 1. t. 90.— Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 19. 



This species weighs seventeen ounces ; length fifteen inches. The 

 bill is an inch and three quarters long, yellow, tipped with black ; the 

 head and whole upper side of the body, wings, tail, and thighs, black; 

 the under parts, from chin to vent, white ; the legs are weak and com- 

 pressed ; whitish before, and dusky behind. These birds do not make 

 their appearance often in the south, but are found in the Orkney Isles and 

 in the Isle of Man, in the breeding season, where they take possession 

 of rabbit-burrows or other holes, and lay one white egg, blunt at each 

 end. The young are fit to take in August, when great numbers are 

 killed and barrelled with salt, which the inhabitants boil and eat with 

 potatoes. They are said to make their appearance first in February, but 

 not to settle at the breeding place till April, and to depart by the begin- 

 ning of September. They are called in the Isle of Man, Manks 

 Puffin ; in the Orkneys, Lyre. 



PUFFINET. — A name for the Scraber. 



PULSE OF BIRDS.— * The heart of birds, and consequently their 

 pulse, beats much quicker than in larger animals, ranging from a hun- 

 dred to one hundred and ten beats in the second.* 



PULVERISING. — * Amongst the singularity of manners, perhaps 

 there is none more extraordinary than that which seems peculiar to a few 



