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THE SHORE BIRDS. 



STORMY PETREL. Occurs regularly every winter after any very heavy 

 gales. Last winter a man brought me up a petrel 

 with a whitish bar across the wing, which I 

 tremblingly identified as the very rare Wilson's 

 Petrel. Alas ! Wilson's Petrel is very much longer 

 on the leg than my bird which turned out to be 

 merely a rather curious example of the fork-tailed 

 variety. Messrs. Macpherson and Gurney, two well- 

 known ornithologists, took a great interest in this 

 bird, and were good enough to assist me in 

 identifying it* 



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a limit, we perceive, to the endurance of sea birds, and even to that of the Petrels, which are 



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perhaps the best hard weather aeronauts amongst all the denizens of the air. Although they are 



