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-wear thefr bills round their necks as an ornament. . 
_. The Puffins build in many of the iflands on the. 
coaft of England. They get into rabbit-holes, 
and there each female lays one egg, 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 
_ can bite very hard, and they make a ftrange noife, 
_ like a dumb 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 
| the mouth of their holes. erat: 
Genus go. PROCELLARIA, . 
The Petrel’s bill is ftrait, hooked at the end; both 
mandibles of equal length; the upper one hooked at the 
‘point, 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 
a fpecies the noftrils are feparate, and in two pipes, or tubes. 
Their feet are webbed, and they have a fhort heey (or 
Spur) inftead 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 
weftern iflands, near the coaft of Scotland. It 
Be 3 comes. . 
