"I've commanded a black brigantine, name of The Petrel," he admitted simply.

she enquired, "you stormy petrel!

"I begin to think," said Steinmetz, coming to the point in his bluff way, "that you are a sort of beautiful Jonah, a graceful stormy petrel, a fair Wandering Jewess.

CHAPTER XXIV THE STORMY PETREL As Juanita quitted the room she heard Sarrion ask Evasio Mon if he had lunched.

" Sarrion was wondering why he had come to Torre Gardathis stormy petrel of clerical politicswhose coming never boded good.

I've got to regard him as a kind of stormy petrel; here to-day and gone to-morrow, always on the wing, and never resting anywhere for any time.

" CHAPTER IV. O'er the stormy, wide, and billowy deep, Where the whale, the shark, and the sword-fish sleep; And amidst the plashing and feathery foam, Where the stormy-petrel finds a home.

" "THE STORMY PETREL." Where the gray crags beat back the northern main, And all around, the ever restless waves, Like white sea-wolves, howl on the lonely sands, Clings a low roof, close by the sounding surge.

And round the coast For so his comrades named him in his youth They know him as "The Stormy Petrel" still.

In freezing floods when tempests hurled the deep, And battling winds clashed in their icy caves, Scared housewives, waking, thought of him, and said, "'The Stormy Petrel' is abroad to-night, And watches from the cliffs.

Wilson shot a number of Antarctic petrel and snowy petrel.

Wilson shot a number of Antarctic petrel and snowy petrel.

It is pretty to see the snow petrel and Antarctic petrel diving on to the upturned and flooded floes.

It is pretty to see the snow petrel and Antarctic petrel diving on to the upturned and flooded floes.

The Antarctic petrel has a pretty crouching attitude.

In turn they afford food for creatures great and small: the crab-eater or white seal, the penguins, the Antarctic and snowy petrel, and an unknown number of fish.

A flight of Antarctic petrel accompanied the ship for some distance, wheeling to and fro about her rather than following in the wake as do the more northerly sea birds.

J. B. Murphy; the stormy petrel of surgery.

The storm petrel shrieks!

To say that a petrel resembled a kite would be of no value to one who knew nothing of either bird.

" The formation of Rat Island resembles that already noticed in Pelsart Group; there were the same low overhanging cream-coloured limestone cliffs, to the height of half the island; the greatest elevation of which was 13 feet, with a similar soil, mixed with guano, and filled with burrows of the sooty petrel, or mutton bird.

Six 6-in., 9 R.F. 150 Petrel Gunboat

The Petrel.

The most interesting occurrence in natural history during the passage, in addition to the usual accompaniments of flying fish, dolphins, physaliae and velellae, was our finding, in the neighbourhood of the equator, considerable numbers of a rare British bird, Thalassidroma leachii, a species of storm-petrel, not before known to extend its range to the tropics; it was distributed between the tropic of Cancer and latitude 5 degrees South.

As usual with the Petrel family they bite severely if incautiously handled, and disgorge a quantity of offensive oily matter, the smell of which pervades the whole island, a which the clothes I then wore retained for a long time afterwards.