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Black Gul- 
lemots. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
but [ have feen them in fuch large flocks at York 
Fort in the Fall of one thoufand feven hundred 
and feventy-three, that Mr. Ferdinand Jacobsthen 
Governor, Mr. Robert Body Surgeon, and my- 
felf, killed in one afternoon as many as two men 
could conveniently carry. They generally feed 
on infeéts, and are at all times good eating, but 
late in the Fall are moft excellent. They are by 
no means equally plentiful in all years; and at — 
the Northern fettlements in the Bay they are not 
clafled with thofe fpecies of game that add to the 
general ftock of provifions, being only killed as 
a luxury; but I am informed that at Albany 
Fort, feveral barrels of them are annually falted 
for Winter ufe, and are efteemed good eating. 
This bird during Summer reforts to the remoteft 
Northern parts; for I have feen them at the Cop- 
per River, though in thofe dreary regions only 
in pairs. The young of thofe birds always 
leave their nefts as foon as hatched, and when but 
a few days old run very faft; at night, or in 
rainy weather, the old ones call them together, 
and cover them with their wings, in the fame 
manner as a hen does her chickens. 
Buack GuLuEMmots, known in Hudfon’s Bay 
by the name of Sea Pigeons. ‘Thofe birds fre- 
quent the fhores of Hudfon’s Bay and Straits in 
confiderable numbers ; but more particularly the 
Northern parts, where they fly in large flocks; to 
the Southward they are only feen in pairs. They 
are of a fine black, but not glofly, with fcarlet 
legs 
