. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. 223. THE STORMY PETREL. STORM FINCH, OR LITTLE PETREL.{^Procellariapelagtca, Lin.—UOlfeau de Temphet Buff.) This is the least of all the web-footed birds, measuringonly about six inches in length, and thirteen in breadth.The bill is half an inch long, hooked at the tip ; the nos-trils tubular. The upper parts of the plumage are black,sleek, and glossed with bluish refledlions: the brow,cheeks, and under parts, sooty brown: the rump, andsome feathers on the sides of the tail, white : legs slender,black, and scarcely an
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. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. 223. THE STORMY PETREL. STORM FINCH, OR LITTLE PETREL.{^Procellariapelagtca, Lin.—UOlfeau de Temphet Buff.) This is the least of all the web-footed birds, measuringonly about six inches in length, and thirteen in breadth.The bill is half an inch long, hooked at the tip ; the nos-trils tubular. The upper parts of the plumage are black, sleek, and glossed with bluish refledlions: the brow, cheeks, and under parts, sooty brown: the rump, andsome feathers on the sides of the tail, white : legs slender, black, and scarcely an inch and three quarters in length, from the knee joint to the end of the toes. This bird resembles the Chimney Swallow in generalappearance, in the length of its wings, and in the swift-ness of its flight. It is sometimes met with by navigatorson every part of the ocean, diving, running on foot, orskimming over the surface of the heavy rolling waves ofthe most tempestuous sea, quite at ease, and in security 5 224 BRITISH BIRDS. and yet it seems to foresee, and fear the comin