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S T O R M Y P E T R E L.
GAS GAN LONGWYR, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
STORM PETREL. COMMON STORM PETREL. LITTLE PETREL.
STORM FINCH. MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN.
Procellaria pelágica, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK.
FLEMING. JENYNS. TEMMINCK.
Thalassidroma pelágica, SELBY. GOULD.
Procellaria. Procella—k storm. Pelágica—Of or belonging to the sea.
Pclagas—The sea.
T H I S is the smallest web-footed bird known, the last and least in the
latter half of this m y ' H i s t o r y of British Birds.'
It has received its name of Petrel from its habit of walking or running
on the water, as the Apostle St. Peter did or essayed to do.
I n Europe, some have been obtained on the lakes of Switzerland,
others in France, Holland, and Italy; so, too, in Madeira and in South
Africa, as likewise in America, in Newfoundland.
They breed in the Faroe Islands and at Iceland.
With us they build at Scilly, and the nest has been found on the
Gull Rock, also in the county of Cornwall; so too, in the Hebrides,
on St. Hilda and Soa; and in Wales near St. David's; also on the
western coast of Ireland; and in Scotland, on Dun vegan Head, in the
Isle of Skye; also at StafTa and Ioua, in Orkney; pretty abundantly
on the small islands near St. Margaret's Hope; at Foula, Papa, Oxna,
North Ronaldshay, in the Green Holms, in Ellar Holm, and in Hunda,
and the islets lying off Scalloway, and other parts of Shetland; so,
too, in the Isle of Bcrhon, off Aldcrney. The late William Thompson,