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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
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feeding them then. The egg is white—only one is laid. It is of large pro-portionate size. Male; length, seven inches and a quarter; head, crown, neck,and nape, sooty black; chin, throat, and breast, sooty black,the last-named tinted with brown, and having a white patchbehind each thigh, continued, as presently mentioned. Back,dark sooty greyish black, white on the lowest part. The wings expand to the width of one foot seven inches,and reach, when closed, a little beyond the end of the tail;greater and lesser wing coverts, greyish brown, some of themtipped with grey, shewing a pale bar across; primaries, black;secondaries, black, the tips greyish; tertiaries, sooty black,tipped with white. The tail, of twelve feathers, is sooty black,and forked, the side feathers being half an inch longer thanthe middle ones; upper tail coverts, partly white; under tailcoverts, sooty black, with an elongated patch of white on eachside. Legs, toes, claws, and webs, black. The female is like the male.
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I 143 ^ORMY PETREL. STORM PETREL. COMMON STOEM PETREL. LITTLE PETREL.STORM FTNCH. MOTHER CAREYs CHICKEN. Procellaria pefagica. Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. Fleming Jknyns, Temminck. Thalassidroma pelagica, Selby. Gculd. Procellaria. Frocella—A storm. Pelagica—Of or belonging to the sea. Pelagus—The sea. This is the smallest web-footed bird known, the last andleast in the latter half of this my History of British Birds. It has received its name of Petrel from its habit of walkingor running on the water, as the Apostle St. Peter did oressayed to do. In Europe, some have been obtained on the lakes of Swit-zerland, others in France, Holland, and Italy; so, too, inMadeira and in South Africa, as likewise in America, inNewfoundland. They breed in the Faroe Islands and at Iceland. With us they build at Scilly; so, too, in the Hebrides, onSt. Kilda and Soa; also on the western coast of Ireland; andin Scotland, on Dunvegan Head, in the Isle of kye; alsoat StafFa and lona, in Orkney; pretty

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