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ORD. III. GEN. IV. PETREL. 



SPE. III. STORMY PETREL. 



PI. 220. 



Procellaria pelagica. Lin. Syft. I. p. 1 12. 

 Le Pecrel. Brij. Orn. VI. p. 140. 



This bird is a little larger than the fwallow. It is all over of a rufty black 

 colour, lighteft on the under parts, except the coverts of the tail and vent 

 feathers, which are white, and a little white on the ends of the fecond quill 

 feathers. 



This fpecies pofiefies the faculty of fpurting oil from its bill and noftrils, in 

 common with the reft of the genus. It is very frequently met with at fea, 

 ■ where it is confidered as portending ftorms. Our failors ufually give it the 

 name of mother Cary's chicken. On land it is feldom feen, though one has 

 been (hot at Walthamftow, in Effex, and another at Oxford. It breeds in the 

 northern iflands of Scotland. 



