THE STORMY PETREL
SCIENTIST RIDICULES SAILORS’ BELIEF.
A Mother Carey’s chicken—a stormy Detre ] —fell exhausted in mid-Atlantic on the deck of the White Star liner Homeric. It was picked up and fed by AssistantPurser B. Vox. After it had rested for 24 hours it was released. “I have spent all my life at sea in .mocks” an old fisherman said to a “Daily Mail” reporter, “and I have never known a mistake by Mother Carey s chickens. Whenever we see we know there is dirty weather e o® in £’ ~ The bird’s name, stormy petrel, is sa to be derived from Saint Peter, because ashore except to lay eggs and batch their birds, stormy petreis live « d frequently to be seen off Fastnet ana other places in a flat calm.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 7
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129THE STORMY PETREL Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 7
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