STOKM PETREL. 
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use it as a lamp or candle, by drawing a wick through the 
body, and setting light to one end of it. 
The Storm Petrel measures five inches ten lines in length ; 
the wing from the shoulder to the tip four inches seven lines; 
the beak from the forehead five lines and a quarter; from 
the nostril to the forehead three lines ; the tarsi ten lines; 
middle toe ten lines ; the hinder toe half a line. 
The chief plumage of the Storm Petrel, in the adult state, 
is sooty black ; the tips of the tertials are white, as also the 
tips of the greater wing-coverts; the upper tail-coverts and 
sides of the vent, the base of the outer tail-feathers white; 
the beak, legs, and feet are black ; the eyes are dark brown. 
The young bird is not so deep coloured; the tips of the 
greater wing-coverts are ferruginous ; the tips of the tertials 
and the sides of the vent have little or no white. 
The egg figured 319 is that of the Storm Petrel. 
