. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE FULMAR PERTEL. 619 therefore by a curious process of reasoning is taken for its cause. A sailor once told me very frankly, after I had held a short argument with him, that " they mostly takes things wrong side forrards," and so it is with the Stonny Petrel, the pilot-fish, and many other creatures. A VERT much larger species is the Fulmar Petrel. This Petrel is very plentiful in the island of St. Kilda, and an excellent account of the bird and its importance to the inhabita
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE FULMAR PERTEL. 619 therefore by a curious process of reasoning is taken for its cause. A sailor once told me very frankly, after I had held a short argument with him, that " they mostly takes things wrong side forrards," and so it is with the Stonny Petrel, the pilot-fish, and many other creatures. A VERT much larger species is the Fulmar Petrel. This Petrel is very plentiful in the island of St. Kilda, and an excellent account of the bird and its importance to the inhabitants has been given by Mr. McGillivray, who visited. 'S^^^ STORMY P'EVYfEL.— Thalasntdroma ijelagica. the island in 1860. "This bird exists here in almost incredible numbers. ... It forms one of the principal means of support to the inhabitants, who daily risk their lives in its pursuit. The Fulmar breeds on the face of the liighest precipices, and only on such as are furnished with small, grassy shelves, every spot on which, above a few inches in extent, is occupied with one or more of its nests. The nest is formed of herbage, seldom bulky, generally a mere shallow excavation in the turf and the withered tufts of the sea-pink, in which the bird deposits a single egg of a pure white color when clean, which is seldom the ; Leach's, Bulwer's, Black-capped, Least Petrel, Wilson's, Black Petrel, Ashy, Fork-tailed, Hornby's, and White-bellied Petrel are all North American birds—some of them confined to the California coast and northward on the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888; Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer; Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Ill
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