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VOL. II!. —NO. 27. All rights reserved. JANUARY, 1897.



NOTES ON THE NESTING OF THE STORM

PETREL.


By the Rev. Hubert D. Asteey, F.Z.S.


As we steamed in a trim little launch on the waves of the

broad Atlantic amongst a group of islands whose whereabouts

may perhaps be guessed, but not stated positively, the blueness

and brilliancy of a June sky were overhead; the Cormorants and



Shags were fishing on either side of us ; the water, when one

looked down into its depths, was clear as crystal, and the brown

and orange sea-plants could be seen waving long graceful tresses,

on which numerous anemones were anchored with mauve and

.green tentacles : the flowers of the ocean..


Now and then the forests under the waves were skirted by

broad stretches of sand, protruding from which one caught

glimpses of other species of anemones, preferring in the order

of their nature to fasten themselves more firmly, pushing their



