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PROCELLARIA PELAGICA. 
STORMY PETREL. 
Black ; rump white, 
Procellaria Pelagica, Lin. Gme, 
U Oiseau de tempete, BafF. 
Petrel pigrne, Temminck. 
Stormfinch, Will. 
Stormy Petrel, Pen. Lath. Bew. Mont. 
PROVINCIAt. 
LITTLE PETREL/MOTHER GARY'S 
CHICKEN, WITCH, ALLAMOTTI, 
ASSILAG, SPENCY, SEA-SWAL- 
LOW, MITTY 
Though the "epithet stormy is appli- 
cable more or less to all the Petrels, yet 
navigators have agreed to appropriate it to 
this species. Sailors naturally superstitious, 
have always considered this little bird as 
the forerunner of stormy and tempestuous 
