Tolley Falluger, historian, classification
theorist, bird counter and authority on the migration of animals, normally lives
on a boat in the Bardsey Island straits.
Tolley has propositioned ideal theories for those wishing to believe in a
concerted effort on the part of birds, to have found, in fact, a viable
'parliament of fowls'. His theories have struck such a chord with the World
Society for the Protection of Birds that they have successfully muzzled him.
Tolley's brother, Vassian,
with admitted prejudice, believes that Tolley was sent to the Tasman Archipelago
to study the Steven's Island wren, whose entire species population was
slaughtered by a lighthouse keeper's cat in the first four month's of 1894.
