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| wear their bills round their‘necks as an ornament: 
_ Fhe Puffins build in many.of the iflands on the 
| coaft of England.- They get into rabbit-holes, 
| and: there each’ female lays. one ege,-and hatches: 
her. young one. Sometimes people take them 
| with ferrets,-as‘they take rabbits; and fometimes* 
they. draw them-out with a hooked ftick, for they 
. ean bite very hard, and they make a ftrange noife; 
| like a dumtb perfon trying to fpeak. About the - 
_ middle of Auguft, all the old Puffins go away from 
England, .and. leave the. young ones behind, that 
cannot: follow them: thefe are all devoured by 
| the Peregrine Falcon, who watches, for them at 
q tpemnonth.c of their holsse 
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Ge ie ope /PROCELLARIA 
The Petrel’s bill is: firait,, boghea at the end; both 
mandibles of equal length; the upper one hooked at the 

oint, the lower compreffed, and. channelled at the point. 
| | The noftrils are cylindric, (or in.the form of a pipe, or: 
| tube) lying along the beak, and growing toit. Ina few 
ecies the noftrils are feparate, and in two pipes, or tubes. 
Their feet are webbed, and they havea thort bree (or 
fpur) inflead of a back toe. 
The legs are naked, to above the: knees. 
HE Fulmar: is a Petrel, and inhabits: the’ 
ifland of St. Kilda, which is one of the 
weflern iflands, near: the coat of Scotland. It 
me comes 

