A Week in the Isles of Scilly Revised And Rewritten By Leonard H Courtney
A Week in the Isles of Scilly Revised And Rewritten By Leonard H Courtney
I W Isaac William North
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The Storm Petrel, f the smallest web-footed bird which braves our stormy seas out of sight and apparent reach of land, lays its two beautiful white eggs, encircled with a zone of rufous, yellow towards the larger end, under cover of the over-hanging rocks of the more inaccessible islets. Mr. Rod J thus describes the habits of this little mariner, as he observed them during a fishing excursion in Mount's Bay. •' In the summer of 1834, when at a distance of six or seven miles from shore, in Mount...'s Bay, fishing, on a per- fectly calm summer's evening, ten or twelve Stormy Petrels, just before sunset, continued flying about our boat, * Yarrell, p. P. 509, 510. Tlbid. , vol. Iii. P. 525. A WEKK IN SCILLY. 89 apparently regardless of men or of any danger. We several times endeavoured to strike them with our oars ; but, instead of exhibiting caution, the bird just struck at would fly almost in our faces and around our heads : and if we could have kept the boat stationary, I am certain they might have been caught by the hand.
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