All his life he has been one of the stormy petrels of diplomacy.

On September 29th another unrefutable sign of spring appeared in the arrival of a flock of Antarctic petrels.

CAREY HERSELF "By and by there came along a flock of petrels, who are Mother Carey's own chickens....

" Before many Saturdays the Admiral's lap had superseded all other places as a gathering ground for the little Careys, whom he called the stormy petrels.

She would be left behind, like Charlestown and all the old life, when Mother Carey and the stormy petrels flitted across unknown waters from one haven to another.

They are stormy petrels, and are supposed to go out over the seas and show good birds the way home.

"Come, come!" said the petrels to the molly-mocks in "Water Babies.

Pray give my regards to your mother, whom I envy, and all the "stormy petrels," whom I envy too.

Why should she complain, so long as the stormy petrels were all working and playing in Mother Carey's water garden where they ought to be; gathering strength to fly over or dive under the ice-pack and climb Shiny Wall?

Cape pigeons, gulls, petrels, and albatross were wheeling about in the air, while the rollers that still came in on this noble sea-wall were really terrific.

Penguins were swimming about, filling the air with their discordant cries, while there was literally no end of the cape-pigeons and petrels.

Like stormy petrels they rushed to the center of the swirling world.

Antarctic petrels have come about us.

Seals and penguins capture these fish, as also, doubtless, the skuas and the petrels.

We passed one small berg on the starboard hand with a group of Antarctic petrels on one side and a group of snow petrels on the other.

We passed one small berg on the starboard hand with a group of Antarctic petrels on one side and a group of snow petrels on the other.

The most interesting example of Polar colouring here is the increased proportion of albinos amongst the giant petrels found in high latitudes.

"It would be very cruel, because very useless," said Mrs. Lee; "but are they not also called Stormy Petrels?" "Yes, ma'am, in books, I believe; but come, Tom, fetch some good strong cotton, such as your mother sews with, and I will show you how to catch some of Old Mother Carey's brood.

The children were beginning to doubt Mr. James's power of catching Stormy Petrels, when early one morning, as they were dressing, they heard the three knocks he always gave on the deck when he wanted to show them something.

I once touched at the Faroe Islands, and saw Petrels often used as lamps there.

Humboldt says, that in the Northern Deserta, the petrels hide in rabbit burrows.

There were white petrels here; there, other petrels, whose wings were embroidered with brown.

There were white petrels here; there, other petrels, whose wings were embroidered with brown.

The principal trade of the Straitsmen is in the feathers of mutton birds (Sooty Petrels) which annually visit the islands, between the 15th and 20th of November, for the purposes of incubation.

While engaged in sounding, a process which usually occupied three-quarters of an hour, a boat was always at my service when birds were about the ship, and the state of the sea admitted of going after themby this means many species of petrels were obtained for the collection.