| Summary: | mother Leach's Petrel (Nfld.) (Middle term spelled also "Carew's" and "Cary's". "Chicken," a bird; for the remainder of the name a variety of derivations have been suggest- ed. One having dictionary sanction (NID) is that the term is an Anglicization of the Latin, _Mater Cara_ (esteemed Mother) applied to the Virgin Mry, patroness of sailors. As these birds are regarded as portents of trouble, however, the connection does not seem too clear. A popular explanation is: "Mother Carew was an old witch. good at raising the wind.The sailors will not shoot [the petrels] on any account; they pay them great respect that their mother's wrath may not be roused." Mctaggart, 1829, 1:12) PRINTED ITEM G.M.Story June 1962 Used I and Sup Not used Not used
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