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Identifier: dictionaryofbird00newtfo (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of birds
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Roy, Charles S. (Charles Smart) Shufeldt, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1850-1934
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ere also will be found copious references to previousstudies of the Petrels.^ ^ It is due to Prof. Coues to state that in 1864 he had decLared the genusOceanites, of which he only knew the external characters, to be the naostdistinct and remarkable of the Frocellariese, though he never thought ofmaking it the type of a separate Family. - Among these may here be especially mentioned those of Quoy and Gaimard(Ann. Sc. Nat. v. pp. 12-3-155, and Voy. da VUranie et la Physicienne, Zool. pp.142-169); Jacquinot (Comj)tes Rcndus, 1844, pp. 353-358, and ^ooZ. Voy. au PolSlid, iii. pp. 128-152) ; Prof. Coues (Proc. Acad. Philad. 1864, pp. 72-91, 116-144, and 1866, pp. 25-33, 134-197) ; Mr. Salvin (Orn. Miscdl. ii. pp. 223-238, PETREL 709 Petrels are dispersed throughout all the seas and oceans of theworld, and some species apparently never resort to land except forthe purpose of nidification, though nearly all are liable at times tobe driven ashore, and often very far inland, by gales of wind.^
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^^ii§M- Capped Petrel, CEstrelafa liwsitata. (From The Zoologist, vol. x. p. 3C9S.) Wanderers as they may be, there is reason to think that attachmentto their home is a feeling as strong with them as with other birds,and it is only now beginning to be clear that until we know thebreeding-place or places of each species—and some seem to beextremely restricted in this respect—we shall know very little tothe point about their geographical distribution. But this knowledgeis not easily obtained, for during the breeding-season many of thesebirds are almost wholly nocturnal in their habits, passing the dayin holes of the ground, or in clefts of the rocks, in which theygenerally nestle, the hen of each joair laying a single white egg,sparsely speckled in a few species with fine reddish dots. Of thosespecies that frequent the North Atlantic, the common Storm-Petrel,Procellaria pelagica, a little bird which has to the ordinary eye ratherthe look of a Swift or Swallow, is the Mother Careys

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