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SHEARWATER
P.
DESCRIPTION*
Place and
M a n n e r s .
Procellaria Pufönus, Lin> Syß, 5, p. 213. 6.w*-2?r«#. |$0 Grwl*
N° 56.— Müller, p, 18.
Ee Puffin, Briß Ortu vi. p, 131. 1 Qifi i*. p, 331 «•—•?/. Bnl. 96«.
Avis Diomedea, or ^Arteuna» Rwi $yn* p. 133. I»—*WilU Orn- p. 333.“^
Scop. Ann, i. N° 96«
Münks Puffin, Raii Sjts. p, 134, A. 4.— WM, Om. p. 3 3 3 /Mh|. ph 3 7 9«
Shearwater, ääü Sy». p. 133* A, 2.-—'777/, Qr», p» 3yv,”“-^'r' 2 re/, N9 458«
— Ar8- Ziel. N" 46s. ür. M“f. Ivo. M*f,
T E N G T H fifteen inches: weight feventeen ounces. The
bill is an inch and three quarters long, of a yellow colour,
with the tip black : the upper parts of the body, wings, tail, and
thighs, black: the under, from chin to vent, white: the legs
weak, compreffed on the Tides, whitilh before, and dulky behind,
Brifon's bird is rather bigger, but correfponds in refpeft to
defcription.
This is found in the North of England 3 but particularly in the
Calf of Man, and the Orknies. Alfo in Denmark, Iceland, Greenland,
and no doubt in other parts far north. To the firft they refort
in February, take a fhort poifelfion -of the rabbit-burrows,
and then difappear till April, when they return. They lay one
white egg, blunt at each end : the young are fit to take the beginning
of Anguß, when great numbers are killed by the perfon
who farms the ifle. They are falted and barrelled, and when
boiled, eaten with potatoes. During the day they keep at fea
fiihing, and towards evening return to their young, which they
feed in the fame manner as the Fulmar : they quit the ifle by the
end o f Anguß or beginning of September. In the Orknies they
make
make the neft in holes on the earth, near the Ihelves of the
rocks and headlands : called there the Lyre, and greatly valued,
both on account of being ufed as food, and for the feathers. Are
falted and ufed as in the Calf of Man. They alfo take the old
ones in March ; but they are then poor, and not fo well tailed as
the young. They appear firft; in thofe iflands in February *.
They alfo frequent the Atlantic t and Southern J Oceans, being
met with by our voyagers in various places of the laft.
Le Paffin cendré, Br!/. Om. vi. p. 134. N° 2. pl. 12. fig. I.
Le Pétrel cendré, Bnf. Oif. ix. p. 302. pl. 20.
' J ’ H IS is about the fize of the Shearwater, or laft fpecies.
The bill above two inches long, and black : the hind part of
the head whitilh, with a tinge of alh-colour: the reft of the-
upper parts of an elegant alh-colour : fore part of the head, and
under part of the body, fnow white : the baftard wing fpotted
with black : quills outwardly black : tail white : legs grey
brown.
Inhabits the northern regions. It is probably the brown Shearwater,
which has often a white ring round the neck, feen by
Halm every where from our channel to the American coaft. He
fays it has a peculiar flow way of flying, and may be plainly feen
to feed on filh ||;.
* Br, Zool,
f Every where from our channel to the American coaft.—Kahn- Trav. i. p. 23.
% 25 deg. S. Forß, Voy, i. p> 50.—Ne~v Zealand, Id, i. p. 4S7.— Css.fV
laß Voy. iii. p. 175.
U Trav. i, p. 23,..
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