. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . the height of the tempest a boat, belong-ing to Alexander Wilson of Coldingham Shore, was driven with some others roundby St. Abbs Head. When the boat was in momentary peril of being dashed topieces on the rocks as it was rounding the most dangerous part of the Head, andthe men were lying on the deck with their arms through the bulwarks, a half-lang lad, named Thomas Wilson (Johns Tarn), stretching out his legs, touch
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . the height of the tempest a boat, belong-ing to Alexander Wilson of Coldingham Shore, was driven with some others roundby St. Abbs Head. When the boat was in momentary peril of being dashed topieces on the rocks as it was rounding the most dangerous part of the Head, andthe men were lying on the deck with their arms through the bulwarks, a half-lang lad, named Thomas Wilson (Johns Tarn), stretching out his legs, touchedone of the men, and said, Geordie! yonders a Stormy Petrel! The man,apparently looking upon this remark as most untimely, was heard to reply, Stormy Petrel! If I could get at ye, I would Stormy Petrel ye. THE STORM PETEEL, 323 a means of increasing the interest, if not the importance, offuture weather forecasts. ^ The Storm Petrel is about the size of a Sparrow, and isone of the smallest web-footed birds. It breeds on variousparts of the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, and feedson small fishes, crustaceans, and molluscs. 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. x. pp. 85, ( 324 ) MIGRATION OF BIRDS IN BERWICKSHIRE. Birds, joyous birds of the ivandering wing !Whence is it ye come with thejloaoers of spring? Hemans. . . Wild birds that changeTheir season in the night, and xvail their wayFrom cloicd to cloud. Tennyson. Foe many years past the Migration of Birds has attractedthe attention of ornithologists, and although much informa-tion has been collected regarding it since the days of GilbertWhite, whose delightful work on the Natural History ofSelborne is a perennial source of pleasure to all lovers ofNature, yet much has still to be obtained before the subjectcan be fully elucidated, and removed from the region ofconjecture. We find that with the approach of the cold weather inautumn certain species of birds, such as the Swallow, leavethe county for southern climes, whilst some
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