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WITHIN the American gulph we difcovered 

 a fea-bird at a little diftance from the fhip, 

 which the failors called a Sea -hen. 



LAND-BIRDS are new and then feen at fea, 

 and fometimes at a good diftance from any land, 

 fo that it is often difficult to account for their 

 appearance in fo uncommon a place. Augitft the 

 1 8th, we faw a bird which fettled on our {hip, 

 and was perfectly like the great Titmoitfe, (Parus 

 major Linn.) upon an attempt to catch it, it got 

 behind the fails, and could never be caught. 



Sept. i ft. WE obferved fome Land-birds 

 flying about our fliip, which we took for Sand 

 Martins (Hirundo riparla Linn.J fometimes they 

 fettled on our fhip, or on the fails j they were of 

 a greyiih brown colour on their back, their bread 

 white, and the tail fome what furcated ; a heavy 

 fhower of rain drove them afterwards away. 

 September the ad a Swallow fluttered about the 

 fhip, and fometimes it fettled on the maftj it 

 feemed to be very tired ; feveral times it ap- 

 proached our cabin windows, as if it was willing 

 to take fhelter there. Thefe cafes happened 

 about forty deg. north lat. and between forty- 

 feven and forty-nine deg. weft long, from Lon- 

 don, and alfo about twenty deg. long, or more 

 than nine hundred and twenty fea miles from 

 any land whatfoever. 



Sept. loth. WITHIN the American gulph a 

 large bird, which we took for an Owl, and like- 

 wife a little bird, fettled on our fails. 



Sept. 1 2th. A Wood-pecker fettled on our 

 rigging : its back was of a fpeckled grey, and it 

 feemed extremely fatigued. And another land- 



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