Mother Carey's Chicken, a name (a corruption of Mater cara) familiarly given by sailors to the Stormy Petrel and other small oceanic species of Petrel.—The name MOTHER CAREY'S GOOSE is, in like manner, given to the Great Black Petrel or Gigantic Fulmar (Procellaria gigantea) of the Pacific Ocean (see articles on PETREL and FULMAR).
Mother Carey's Chicken
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 328
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