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 NATATOllES. 



LA RIDE. 



LARIDJE. 



THE STORM PETREL. 



Procellaria ■pelagica, Stormy Petrel, 



Thalassidro7na ,, 

 Procellaria ,, 

 Thalassidrnma ,, 

 Procellaria , , 

 Thalassidioina ,, 



Common Star 



Petrel tempete, 

 Thalassidrome ,, 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 208. 

 Mont. Ornitli. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 263. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 135. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 533. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 285. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 

 Temm. Man. d'Oinith. vol. ii. p. 810. 

 „ „ ,, vol. iv. p. 514. 



The Storm Petrel, the smallest web-footecl bird known, 

 and tlie last of our British Birds in the arrangement here 

 adopted, has so often been the subject of notice by naturalists 

 and writers generally, and even by poets, that little of novelty 

 remains to be told. A year seldom jiasscs without some of 

 these birds being obtained on our shores, and it has happened 

 occasionally that they appear in large flocks. Thus Messrs. 

 C. and J. Paget, in their Sketch of the Natural History of 

 Yarmouth and its neighbourhood, mention, that in Novem- 

 ber, 1824, between two and three hundred were shot after 



