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Ranse in Great Britain.— Found on all the seas round the 
Biitish coa.sts, and sometimes occurring in some numbers 
especially in the late autumn. In May the Storm Petrel 
arrives to breed, and it betakes itself to the islands off the coasts 
of Scotland and Ireland, and also does the same in a few 
localities in the west of England, such as the coasts of Wales 
and the Scilly Islands. On the eastern coast no breeding 
places are known. Mr. Ussher says that in Ireland the Storm 
Petrel breeds on islands ofif the coasts of Donegal, Antrim, 
colonies exist on some 
of the islands otf Kerry.” 
Ranp outside the British Islands.— The Storm-Petrel is an 
inhabitant of the North Atlantic Ocean on both sides, visiting 
» f • extending its range South to West 
Africa. 
Habits.— Mr. W. H. 'Purle gives an interesting account of a 
visit to the Blasquet Islands, and tells us how, when he arrived 
in the dark, the inhabitants of the cabin lighted their only 
candle on receiving him, this candle being a “rush drawn 
through the oily body of a Stormy Pelrel.” Mr. Turle found 
the species breeding among the rocks, and in what had evi 
dently been rabbit-holes. It is said to form an article of food 
on the Blasijuets, and Seebohm ate some of the young 
birds during his visit to these islands in 1856. He found them 
delicious eating when cooked on toast like Snipe, and he pro- 
nounces them to have been “very rich, but not at all fishy.” 
Seebohm gives a good de.scription of the Storm Petrel, as 
he observed it on the Blasfjuets : — Our foreground for half 
a mile or so all lound was a mass of rocks, here and there 
rising into a grassy knoll generally crowned with rocks. No 
tree of any description was visible ; we did not find so much 
as a shrub on the whole island, unless half-a-dozen scattered 
bramble bushes may be allowed to club together and unitedly 
attain to the dignity of shrub. The only houses on the island 
were a couple of cabins, half above and half under ground, 
without window or chimney, and with no mortar in the walls. 
IV hichever way \ve turned we could see nothing but rocks 
and piles of rocks, with grassy slopes between, where rabbits 
abounded and a few sheep grazed. The coast was grand 
