often catch them with fome tarred firing, or a piece of lard on a
fijhing-rod*. Damper obferves, that he met with them in greateft
plenty from about two hundred leagues from the coaft of Brafil to
within much the fame diftance of the coaft of New Holland. Our
voyagers traced them to New Zealand "f > Falkland Ijles, and many
other parts ; and indeed they feem to fee fcattered all round the
South Pole. One of their breeding-places is in Kerguelen’s Land.
The egg of the fize of that of a Pullet, and laid in December
When caught it makes a noife not unlike a Parrot; and fpirts
out oil from the noftrils into the face of the perfon who holds it.
It feeds on fijh, but more frequently on the dead carcafes of
Whales, &c. about which at times it is feen in vaft numbers §.
In the IJle of Defolation our laft voyagers met with a ftrong variety,
which differed in having fuch parts as are white in the
common one, of a fine cream or buff-colour: the tail white, tipped
with black : and the bafe of the quills white : legs brown: webs
black: and two of the inner toes orange in the middle.
This is in the colleftion of Sir JoJtpb Banks.
* OJb. Voy. i. p. 109. f Forft. Voy. i. p. 489.
J Cook's laft Voy* i. p. 86..
§ Ives mentions, that when caught and brought on board a fhip, they cannot
rife for flight from the deck*, but will moil readily do fo out of a. tub of water».
«—See Voy. p. 5.
Prçcelîarî»
ProcdUria glaclalis, tin* Syft- !, p, gig, z.^Faun* Suee, N° 144^Brum
Qrtt* N9 11$.-»««Muller» N° 144.-~.fVt«», Groenl* N° 55»
ke Petrel cendre, Brif. Or», vl, p, 143, 2. pi, iz. fig. «.
Xi$ Fulmar, ou Petrel Puffin, gris blanc» Buf* Qlft ix. p. 30a. pi. 22.-*
Enl* 59«
Wagellus Cornnbienfiuro, Burgomafter of Groenland, Rati Syu* p. 130«
A. 13,
Haffhert, or Sea Horfe, Will, Or», p. 395.
Fulmar, Br* Zool. ii. N9 257* pi* 91 Zool N° 461,
lev* M«/*
J ^ E N G T H feventecn inches: weight twenty-two ounces.
The bill is two inches long, of a pale grey colour, with a
yellowifh tip : the back and wing coverts are afh-colour: quills
dulky : the reft of the plumage white: legs greyifh yellow : in
fome birds the tail is of a pale alh-colour.
This fpecies is found in the northern parts of Great Britain ;
and from thence as much farther to the north as our travellers
have explored. It is in the greateft plenty in the ifle of St. Kilda,
where it appears in November, and continues the whole year, except
the months of September and October. It lays one large
white, and very brittle egg $ and the young are hatched the
middle of June. Very common alfo in Greenland*, and parts
adjacent j and of great ufe to the inhabitants for food, the
flelh being eaten boiled or dried, for want of better, as it is very
Sinking and offenfive: the fat is eaten crude, or burned to ferve
as oil for their lamps j and the fmall pouch of the under jaw
+. FU&AR P.
Description.
P l a c e a n »
M a n n e r s .
# Breed on the craggy (hore on the weft of Difco, and other places remote from
the continent,.in great numbers.— Faun* Groenl.
3 F a formed