. Guide to the gallery of birds in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History) . a well-knowninhabitant of the seas of Arctic Europe, and nests within our limits onSt. Kilda and the Shetland Islands. Two phases of plumage are kiujwu,some examples having the under surface white, while in others theseparts are grey. The Broad-billed Blue Petrel [Prion ariel) (380)represents a small group remarkable for the presence on each side of thebill of long lamelhe, resembling those of the Ducks. 01 the small long-legged Petrels, commonly known as Mother Careys Chickens, andplaced by
. Guide to the gallery of birds in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History) . a well-knowninhabitant of the seas of Arctic Europe, and nests within our limits onSt. Kilda and the Shetland Islands. Two phases of plumage are kiujwu,some examples having the under surface white, while in others theseparts are grey. The Broad-billed Blue Petrel [Prion ariel) (380)represents a small group remarkable for the presence on each side of thebill of long lamelhe, resembling those of the Ducks. 01 the small long-legged Petrels, commonly known as Mother Careys Chickens, andplaced by some authors in a separate suljfamily, Oi-caiufiiiic, quite anumber appear on the list of British Birds. Two, the Storm-Petrel{Procellarldpelagicu) (381) and Leachs Fork-tailed Petrel [Occaiiodromaleucorrhoa) (382), breed on some of the islands off the west coast ofBritain, while Harcourts Storm-Petrel (O. castro) (383), WilsonsStorm-Petrel [Oceanites oceanicus) (387), and the beautiful White-breasted or Frigate-Petrel {Pilaiiodroiiui inarimi) (385) arc accidentalvisitors to our shores. ^LATE Puffins (Fratcrciila avclicn] WITH YouNG. Nesting Scries, No. , }nnng ; /, ; (, JT) Older X. :. Aiks. (Plate IV., \.) The Auks, Guillemots. Kazor-bills and Puftius, iueluded iu this family, a group of exceptional interest on account of the modifications ofstructure which they have luulergone to adapt them to a purely pelagiclife. Though allied to tlic Gulls and more distantly to the Plovers, theyare now superficially very different, and as in the Grebes and Divers theshape and carriage of tlic body are specially suited to their peculiarliabits. Their distribution is confined to the coasts of the NorthCircumpolar region, none being found cither in the tropical zone or inthe Southern Hemisphere. Black and white are the predominatingcolours in the plumage of these birds. They breed gcneially on rockycliffs and islands in enor
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