STORM PETREL. 



675 



NATATORES. 





THE STORM PETREL. 



Procellaria pelagica, 



Tlicdassidroma Common Storm 



Procellaria 

 Thalassidroma 

 Procellaria 



Thalassidroma pelagica. 



Stormy Petrel, PENN. Brit.Zool. vol. ii. p. 208- 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. 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. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. 

 p. 810. 

 vol. iv. p. 514. 



Petrel temp&te, 



Thalassidrome 



Thalassidroma 



THE STORM PETREL, the smallest web-footed bird 

 known, and the last of our British Birds in the arrange- 

 ment 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 

 passes without some of these birds being obtained on our 

 shores, and it has happened occasionally that they appear 



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