710 PETTICHAPS—PEWIT 
sailors, and is widely believed to be the harbinger of bad weather ; 
but seamen hardly discriminate between this and others nearly 
resembling it in appearance, such as Leach’s or the Fork-tailed 
Petrel, Cymochorea leucorrhoa, a rather larger but less common bird, 
and Wilson’s Petrel, Oceanites occanicus, the type of the Family 
Oceanitide mentioned above, which is more common on the American 
side. But it is in the Southern Ocean that Petrels most abound, 
both as species and as individuals. The Cape-Pigeon or Pintado 
Petrel, Daption capensis, is one that has long been well known, while 
those who voyage to or from Australia, whatever be the route 
they take, are.certain to meet with many more species, some, as 
Ossifraga gigantea, as large as Albatroses, and several of them 
called by sailors by a variety of choice names, generally having 
reference to the strong smell of musk emitted by the birds, among 
which that of “Stink-pot” is not the most opprobrious. None of 
the Petrels are endowed with any brilliant colouring—sooty-black, 
grey of various tints (one of which approaches to and is often called 
“blue”), and white being the only hues their plumage exhibits ; 
but their graceful flight, and their companionship when no other 
life is visible around a lonely vessel on the widest of oceans, give 
them an interest to beholders, though this is too often marred by 
the wanton destruction dealt out by brutal or thoughtless persons 
who thus seek to break the tediousness of a long voyage. 
PETTICHAPS, the name under which a bird, supposed to be 
that now commonly known as the Garden-WARBLER, Sylvia salicaria 
or horlensis, was sent from Yorkshire by Jessop to Willughby 
(Ornithologia, p. 158), and hence more or less frequently applied to 
that species; or, with the qualification of “Lesser,” to the CHIFF- 
CHAFF. The name was known in Lancashire a century later 
(Latham, Gen. Synops. ii. p. 413), but seems never to have been in 
general use in England. In 1873 the present writer obtained 
evidence (Yarrell, Br. B. ed. 4,1. p. 415) that it had not become 
obsolete near Sheffield where Jessop lived. It is also given as the 
name of a bird by Clare the Northamptonshire poet. 
PEWEE, so called from its drawling note,’ a well-known 
North-American bird, Contopus virens, one of the Tyrannide (TYRANT- 
BIRD), extremely abundant in the eastern side of the continent, and 
represented by other species in the remainder of it. 
PEWIT, anciently Puet, the ordinary name of what is called in 
books the Black-headed GuLu, Larus ridibundus, in the inland 
localities affected by it for breeding. The great Pewit-pool at Nor- 
bury in Staffordshire visited by Ray and Willughby, 14th May 1662, 
1 This is said to be in sharp contrast with that of its relative called in 
North America the Pewir. 
