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PETREL , the See also:general name of a See also:group of birds (of which more than too See also:species are recognized), derived from the See also:habit which some of them possess of apparently walking on the See also:surface of the See also:water as the apostle St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter (of whose name the word is ;a diminutive See also:form) is recorded (Matt. xiv. 29) to have done. The petrels, all of which are placed in the See also:family Procellariidae, were formerly associated with the Laridae (see See also:GuLL), but they are now placed as the See also:sole members of the suborder Tubinares(the name denoting the characteristic tubular structure of their nostrils) and of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order Procellariiformes (see See also:BIRD). They are subdivided into four See also:groups or subfamilies: (1) Petecanoidinae (or Halodrominae), containing some three or four species known as diving-petrels, with habits very different from others of the family, and almost See also:peculiar to high See also:southern latitudes from Cape See also:Horn to New See also:Zealand; (2) Procellariinae, or petrels proper (and shearwaters); (3) Diomedeinae, or albatrosses (see See also:MALLEMUCK); and (4) Oceanitinae, containing small sooty-See also:black birds of the genera Cymodroma, Pealea, Pelagodroma, Garrodia and Oceanites, the distinctive nature of which was first recognized by See also:Coues
in 1864.
Petrels are archaic oceanic forms, whir See also:great See also:powers of See also:flight, dispersed throughout all the seas and oceans of the See also:world, and some species apparently never resort to See also:land except for the purpose of See also:nidification, though nearly all are liable at times to be driven ashore, and often very far inland, by See also:gales of See also:wind.' It would also seem that during the breeding-See also:season many of them are wholly nocturnal in their habits, passing the See also:day in holes of the ground, or in clefts of the rocks, in which they generally nestle, the See also:hen of each pair laying a single See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:egg, sparsely speckled in a few species with See also:fine reddish dots. Of those species that frequent the See also:North See also:Atlantic, the See also:common See also:Storm-Petrel, Procellaria pelagica, a little bird which has to the See also:ordinary See also:eye rather the look of a See also:Swift or See also:Swallow, is the " See also:Mother See also:Carey's chicken " of sailors, and is widely believed to be the See also:harbinger of See also:bad See also:weather; but See also:seamen hardly discriminate between this and others nearly resembling it in See also:appearance, such as Leach's or the See also:Fork-tailed Petrel, Cymochorea leucorrhoa, a rather larger but less common bird, and See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson's Petrel, Oceaniles oceanicus, the type of the Family Oceanitidae mentioned above, which is more common on the See also:American See also:side. But it is in the Southern Ocean that Petrels most abound, both as species and as individuals. The Cape-See also:Pigeon or Pintado Petrel, Da pion capensis, is one that has See also:long been well known to mariners and other wayfarers on the great See also:waters, while those who voyage to or from See also:Australia, whatever be the route they take, are
' Thus Oestrelata haesitata, the Capped Petrel, a species whose proper See also:home seems to be See also:Guadeloupe and some of the neighbouring See also:West-See also:Indian Islands, has occurred in the See also:State of New See also:York, near See also:Boulogne, in See also:Norfolk, and in See also:Hungary (See also:Ibis, 1884, p. 202).
certain to meet with many more species, some, as Ossifraga gigantea, as large as Albatrosses, and several of them called by sailors by a variety of choice names, generally having reference to the strong See also:smell of See also:musk emitted by the birds, among which that of " Stink-pot " is not the most opprobrious. None of the Petrels are endowed with any brilliant colouring—sootyblack, See also:grey of various tints (one of which is often called " See also:blue "), and white being the only hues the plumage exhibits.
The See also:distribution of the several species of Petrels in the Southern Ocean has been treated by A. Milne-See also:- EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD (1831-1892)
- EDWARDS, BELA BATES (18o2-1852)
- EDWARDS, BRYAN (1743–1800)
- EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)
- EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837–1884)
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703—1758)
- EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )
- EDWARDS, RICHARD (c. 1523–1566)
- EDWARDS, T
- EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837–1900)
Edwards in the Annales See also:des sciences naturelles for 1882 (6th See also:series Zoologie, vol. xiii. See also:art. 4, pp. 1-22). (A.
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