250 SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE. 



STORM PETREL or MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN, 

 Thalassidroma pelagica. This bird has more 

 frequently than the last been picked up dead or 

 nearly so on the coast, and even many miles in the 

 interior. However much it may appear to be " at 

 home " during a storm when far from the land, 

 and with plenty of sea-room and I have myself 

 seen it under such circumstances in the Bay of 

 Biscay, as well as off the western coast of Ireland 

 it would certainly seem to be " all abroad " 

 when driven from its favourite element by a sud- 

 den tempest, or by those severe and protracted 

 gales which occur at the period of the autumnal 

 equinox. 



FINIS. 



Edward Newman, Printer, 9, Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate. 



