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STRANoC 
BIRD ) Lire 
BOOK OF ANTARCTIC BIRDS 
STORMY PETREL 
STORMY PETREL stood 
first on one foot, then on the 
other. He cocked his head 
on one side, the better to 
catch the howl of the wind, 
then closed one eye and 
squinted away at the whirling snow which swept 
by the door step to his cavern in the sea’s rocky 
cliff. Stormy Petrel has been called the tramp 
among the birds of the sea. Whether he would 
answer to the name I cannot tell. This much he 
would admit, and I don’t doubt he’d be a bit 
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