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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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this manoeuvre,being sufficiently flexible to bend without breaking to any opposing pressure or sudden concussion. Whileskimming around ships they pick up any refuse oily matters that may be thrown overboard, and also any ofthe small mollusca that may be brought to the surface by the agitation of the water which the vessel occasionsin her progress. The Common Storm Petrel is abundant over the whole of the northern seas of Europe, especially in therocky islands of Scotland, where it breeds in the crevices of rocks, among loose stones, and occasionally inholes on the ground, generally laying a single egg of a pure white. The young remain in their retreatsuntil their pinions are sufficiently strong for flight, and it is a considerable period before they are able tofollow their parents. The adults of both sexes are alike in plumage, which is invariably of a sooty black, with a white spot on therump ; the bill and tarsi black. We have figured an adult of each species, of the natural size.
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M p BULWERS PETREL. Thalassidroma ? Bulwerii.Procellaria Bulwerii, Jard. $f Selby. On the authority of Col. Dalton of Slenningford, near Ripon, we are enabled to add this rare species to theFauna of Britain, from a fine specimen which was found on the banks of the Ure, near Tanfield in Yorkshire,on the 8th of May, 1837, and which could not have been long dead, as it admitted of being mounted into agood cabinet specimen. It is now in the possession of Col. Dalton, who doubtless regards it as one of thegreatest treasures in British ornithology. In fact, with the exception of one or two foreign examples, we donot recollect that we have observed it among the numerous collections we have had opportunities of examining.The only recorded facts relative to its history will be found in the second volume of Illustrations of Orni-thology, by Sir William Jardine and Mr. Selby, in which publication the bird is figured from a specimensent from Madeira by Mr. Bulwer, after whom it has been named. As

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