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8*X0RMY PETREL. 
STORM PETREL. COMMON STORM PETREL. LITTLE PETREL. 
STORM PINCH. MOTHER CAREY’S CHICKEN. 
Procellaria pelagica, Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. 
“ « Fleming Jknyns. Temminck. 
Thalassidroma pelagica, Selby. Gculd. 
Procellaria. Procella — A storm. Pelagica — Of or belonging to the sea. 
Pelagus — The sea. 
This is the smallest web-footed bird known, the last and 
least in the latter half of this my ‘History of British Birds.’ 
It has received its name of Petrel from its habit of walking 
or running on the water, as the Apostle St. Peter did or 
essayed to do. 
In Europe, some have been obtained on the lakes of Swit¬ 
zerland, others in France, Holland, and Italy; so, too, in 
Madeira and in South Africa, as likewise in America, in 
Newfoundland. 
They breed in the Faroe Islands and at Iceland. 
With us they build at Scilly; so, too, in the Hebrides, on 
St. Kilda and Soa; also on the western coast of Ireland; and 
in Scotland, on Dunvegan Head, in the Isle of kye; also 
at StafFa and Iona, in Orkney; pretty abundantly on the small 
islands near St. Margaret’s Hope; at Foula, Papa, Oxna, North 
Bonaldshay, in the Green Holms, in Ellar Holm, and in 
Hunda, and the islets lying off Scalloway, and other parts of 
Shetland; so, too, in the Isle of Berhon, off Alderney. The 
late William Thompson, Esq., of Belfast, has mentioned several 
Irish breeding stations; and Sir William Jardine saw small 
parties off Douglas Harbour, in the Isle of Man, in June. 
In Yorkshire, one was taken at Wentworth, the seat of Lord 
Fitzwilliam, in the West-Riding, about the year 1846; as Mr. 
