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STORMY PETREL. 



STORM PETREL. COMMON STORM PETREL. LITTLE PETREL. 

 STORM FINCH. MOTHER CARET'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 lona, in Orkney; pretty abundantly on the small 

 islands near St. Margaret's Hope; at Foula, Papa, Oxna, North 

 Ronaldshay, 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. 



