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MOTHER CAREYS CHICKEX. 



on the watch for prey. Its name, Petrel, is given, Mr. 

 Yarrell tells us, from its " habit of paddling along the 

 surface, from the Apostle Peter, who walked on the sea." 



The last little bird of which we have spoken ends 

 the list of our marine birds, and naturally suggests to 

 us a storm, as a storm does a shipwreck ; and from a 

 shipwreck to floating pieces of timber, or drift-wood, 

 the passage is easy and natural. We shall now inquire 

 whether such floating spars are worth examining. 

 They often come ashore covered externally with Bar- 

 nacles, and pierced through and through by the Teredo 

 and Limnoria. All these animals have something 

 interesting in their history. The Common Barnacle 



