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PRION. 
HIS genuine little sea bird is closely 
related to the Mother Carey Chickens. 
It burrows into the ground to nest, and sits 
upon one white egg. It nests in countless 
numbers upon the island of desolation known 
as Kerguelen’s Land. The photograph, by the 
present writer, illustrates the nesting-burrow of 
the Dove-like Prion, cut away on one side, o o 
