BRITISH BIRDS, 
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STORMY PETREL. 
STORM FINCH, OR LITTLE PETREL. 
{Procellaria pelagkay Lin . — UOifeau de tempete^ BufF.) 
This is the leafl: of all the web-footed birds, 
meafuring only about fix inches in length, and thir- 
teen in breadth. The bill is half an inch long, 
hooked at the tip ; the noftrils tubular. The up- 
per parts of the plumage are black, fleek, and glofs- 
ed with bluifh refledions ; the brow, cheeks, and 
under parts, footy brown : the rump, and fome 
feathers on the fides of the tail, white : legs flender, 
black, and fcarcely an inch and three-quarters in 
length, from the knee joint to the end of the toes. 
This bird refembles the Chimney Swallow in ge- 
neral appearance, in the length of its wings, and in 
the fwiftnefs of its flight. It is fometimes met with 
by navigators on every part of the ocean, diving, 
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