formed into a bladder to buoy up their leffer kind of darts, by
which they often kill the bird itfelf while fitting at reft on
the furface of the water j for it is very heedlefs, and will fuffer
any one to approach it very near: hence is called Mallemucks,
or Foolijh Fly, by the Dutch.
The food of this fpecies is fijh for the moft part; but will
eagerly feize every dead thing that can be converted to food;
and filth from the lhips, which they frequently follow. .Will
fettle by hundreds on the carcafe of a dead Whale, and pick out
the fat, which foon becoming liquid in the ftomach, enables the
old birds to ejeft it into the mouths of their young, for their.fuf-
tenance while in the neft : and alfo on occafions will throw it out
with great violence, both from their mouths and noftrils, into the
faces of thofe who attempt to feize them, and indeed is almoft
the only defence that it makes againft an enemy.
It is alfo common between Kamtfchatka and America, where we
believe it is blended among others, and called by the common
name of Glupijha * : they are fo ftupid as. frequently to fly
into the boats of the natives while fifhing. It is afierted that
they are fo fat that the natives have no more to do than to
fqueeze the fkins, through which it runs like oil, and is ufed for
the fame purpofes. Numbers are caught on the fourth and fifth
Kuriljki Jjlands, which the inhabitants dry in the fun, and ufe for
food. Is found alfo on the coafts of Greenland f .
It is alfo fufficiently plentiful in the Antarctic regions, from
the Cape of Good Hope to as far fouth as has been explored ■,
* This name arifes from their being foolilh birds,
t PhyppPt Voy. p. 186,
and indeed, in greater or fmaller quantities, from 34 to 70 degrees
S. latitude all round the pole *.
In the Britijh Mujeum I obferve one of thele which is near
twenty inches in length :■ has a dark ftrealc through the eye : the
tail4fa/£yt, pointed at the end : legs of a pale colour, almoft
white.
g I Z Epfthelaft. Bill black, ftout, and much curved at the end:
head, neck, body, and tail, white : between the wings pale
alh-colour : the whole of the wing dufky black : legs dulky.
Inhabits the AntarSlic ocean, pretty far to thefouth.
Sr. Muf.
g I Z E of the Fulmar: length twenty inches and a quarter.
Bill yfellowilh, with black futures : irides alh-colour: all the
upper parts of the plumage dufky alh-colour : the crown of the
head, and forehead, paleft; beneath, from chin to vent, white: tail
rounded in lhape, black ; the under part of the feathers pale alh-
colour : legs blueilh : webs pale yellow : toes and claws pale.
We have feen a variety of this with a pale blue bill, and the
breaft and belly of a deep dulky black.
This Ipecies chiefly inhahits the parts within the AntarSlic
circle. Many feen in the lat. of 48 degrees. The food is various
: the bills of the Cuttle-fijh have been found in its ftomach.
* ForJI. Voy. i. p. 52.— ii. p. 534.— Cook's Voy. i. p. 25?.,
t Srumich obferves, that the tail feathers are wholly black.
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