. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PROCELLARIID^. 735. THE FRIGATE-PETREL. Pelag6droma marIna (Latham). After a severe gale in November 1890, a number of sea-birds, which had been washed up dead on the outside of Walney Island, were taken to a local bird-stuffer at Barrow-in-Furness. Among them was a Wilson's Petrel, and also an example of this species, which was secured by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, and sent up to the late Mr. O. Salvin for identification (Ibis 1892, pp. 602-604). On the I St of January 1897, after heavy gales from the south-west, a young female was captured ali
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. PROCELLARIID^. 735. THE FRIGATE-PETREL. Pelag6droma marIna (Latham). After a severe gale in November 1890, a number of sea-birds, which had been washed up dead on the outside of Walney Island, were taken to a local bird-stuffer at Barrow-in-Furness. Among them was a Wilson's Petrel, and also an example of this species, which was secured by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, and sent up to the late Mr. O. Salvin for identification (Ibis 1892, pp. 602-604). On the I St of January 1897, after heavy gales from the south-west, a young female was captured alive on the west side of the island of Colonsay, and forwarded in the flesh to Edinburgh, where it was identified by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, and is now in the Museum of Science and Art in that capital. The haunts of this species nearest to our shores are in the volcanic Salvages islets, already mentioned. On nearing that group, says Mr. Ogilvie Grant, numbers of these elegant birds were seen flitting along, close to the surface of the sea, with their long legs dangling beneath them, and just touching the water. After landing on the Great Salvage, he found that large colonies of this Petrel were breeding on the flat top of the island, in burrows dug out in the sandy ground, which were partly concealed by close-growing ice- plants. Beyond this interesting locality, the bird is known to occur off the Canary Islands ; while it was long ago described by Latham from the South Seas. Gilbert, one of Gould's best collectors, found it nesting off Cape Leeuwin, the south-west point of Australia, as well as on Wallaby Island, one of the Houtmann's Abrolhos group, and it is known to breed in the Chatham Islands, to the south. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jacks
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