55 2 SHEA R-W A T E R Class II. 



as Mr. Ray fuppofes in the Scitty-ijles : they refort 

 to the former in February; take a fhort poifeffion 

 of the rabbet burrows, and then diiappear till April: 

 they lay one egg, white and blunt at each end ; 

 and the young are fie to be taken the beginning of 

 Augitfi; when great numbers are killed by the per- 

 ion who farms theifle: they are faked and barel- 

 led ; and when they are boiled, are eaten with po- 

 tatoes. During the day they keep at fea, fifhing ; 

 and towards evening return to their young \ whom 

 they feed, by difcharging the contents of their 

 ftomachs into their mouths •, which by that time is 

 turned into oil : by reafon of the backward fituation 

 of their legs they fit quite erect:. They quit the 

 ifle the latter end of Aiigv.ft, or beginning of Sep- 

 tember \ and, from accounts lately received from 

 navigators, we have reafon to imagine, that like 

 the ftcrm-fincb, they are difperfed over the whole 

 Atlantic ocean. 



This fpecies inhabits alio the Orkney ides, where 

 it makes its neft in holes on the earth near the 

 (helves of the rocks and headlands 5 it is called 

 there the Lyre; and is much valued there, both on 

 account of its being a food, and for its feathers. 

 The inhabitants take and fait them in Augitft for 

 winter provifions, when they boil them with cab- 

 bage. 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 Fe- 

 bruary, 



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