. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. GREBES AND DIVERS, PENGUINS, TUBE-NOSED BIRDS 4 9 into the water and swam away, but two \\cnt running on, gradually disgorging their food, in the utmost hurry, until they were able to rise, when they made oti t<j ; The Fulmar Petrel is a British bird. On St. Kilda, Professor Newton tells us, from to 20,000 young are killed in one week in August, the only time when, b\- the custom of the community, they are allowed to be taken. These, after the oil is extracted, ser\e
. Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;. Zoology; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes. GREBES AND DIVERS, PENGUINS, TUBE-NOSED BIRDS 4 9 into the water and swam away, but two \\cnt running on, gradually disgorging their food, in the utmost hurry, until they were able to rise, when they made oti t<j ; The Fulmar Petrel is a British bird. On St. Kilda, Professor Newton tells us, from to 20,000 young are killed in one week in August, the only time when, b\- the custom of the community, they are allowed to be taken. These, after the oil is extracted, ser\e the islanders for winter food. The Storm-pE'I'REL is a small bird which breeds abundantl}' in St. Kilda and the Orkneys, and so fearless that it will allow itself to be taken from the nest by hand. Immediately this is done, the bird vomits a quantity of pure oil from its mouth. The wild fowlers make use of this habit, capturing the bird, collecting the oil, and setting the prisoner tree again. A story is related of a storm-petrel which was kept in a cage for three weeks. It was fed by smearing its breast with oil, which the bird swallowed by drawing the feathers separately through its beak. These birds are popularly supposed to be seen onl\- before stormy weather, and therefore are not welcomed by sailors, who call them " Devil's ]3irds " and " ; This bird seems to commend itself to some palates ; thus the late Air. Seebohm says : " Cooked on toast, like snipe, we found them delicious eating, very rich, but not at all ; We cannot refrain from a brief mention of the remarkable litde DiVlNG-l'ETREL — remarkable because of its unlikeness to all the other Petrels and its strong resemblance to the Auks. But its tubular nostrils and certain anatomical characters proclaim its true affinities. " I his is a petrel," says Professor Moseley, " that has given up the active aerial habits of its allies, and has taken to diving, an
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