364 BIRDS. 



lix, 6 ; Edw. 00, is scarcely larger than a Lark ; stands high ; all 

 brown except the rump, which is white, and a white line on the end 

 of the great wing-coverts. When it seeks shelter on a vessel, it 

 may be considered as the forerunner of a hurricane *. 

 We separate, wuth Brisson, under the name of 



PuFFINUS, 



Or Puffins, those in which the end of the lower mandible is curved down- 

 wards along with that of the upper one, and in which the nostrils, al- 

 though tubular, do not open by one common orifice, but by two distinct 

 holes. Their bill also is proportionally longer. 



Proc. puffinus, Gm. ; Puffin cendre, Enl. 962. Cinereous above ; 

 whitish beneath ; wings and tail blackish; the young is darker. Its 

 size is that of a Crow\ Very common in almost every sea -j-. 



There is a species, long confounded with the preceding one, 



which is not larger than a Woodcock, and which breeds in immense 



numbers on the northern coasts of Scotland and the neighbouring 



islands, whose inhabitants salt them for their winter provision. It 



is black above and white underneath, the Proeellaria Anglorum, 



Tem. Edw. 359. 



Navigators occasionally speak of some birds of the Antarctic seas by 



the name of Petrels, which may constitute two separate genera. They 



are the 



Pelecanoides, Lacep. — Halodroma, Illig., 



Which have the bill and figure of the Petrels, with a dilatable throat like 

 that of the Cormorant, and are without the vestige of a thumb like the 

 Albatross. Such are the Proeellaria urinatrix, Gm., and 



Pachyptila, Illig. i 



Or the Prions, Lacep., which, similar in other respects to the Petrels, 

 have ieparate nostrils like a Puffin, the bill widened at the base, and its 

 edges furnished internally with very delicate, vertical and pointed laminae, 

 analogous to those of ducks. Such are the Blue Petrels, Proc. vittata 

 and ccerulea, Forst. 



Diomedea]:, Lhi. 



The Albatrosses are the most massive of all aquatic birds. Their large, 



• The fig. Enl. 933, is a closely allied species of the South Seas (Proc. oceanica, 

 Forst.).— Add, Proc. Leachii, Tem. Act. de Phil. VI, pi. 9, f. I;— Proc. WUsonii, Ch. 

 Bonap.; Wils. VII, Ixx, 6; Id. Act. de Phil. VI, pi. 9, f. 2;— Proc. /regatta, Lath., 

 Rochef., Antill. p. 152;— Proc. marina, Vieill. Gal. 292. 



t Add, Proc. obscura, VieiW. Gal. 301; and Proc. pactfica, or fuUginosa, White, 

 252, which perhaps does not differ from the Proc. aquinoctialis, Edw. 89. 



J Diomedea, the ancient name of certain birds of the Island of Diomedes, near 

 Tarentum, which were said to receive the Greeks favourably, and to attack the barba- 

 rians. As to the word Albatross, I find that the early Portuguese navigators called 

 the Boobies and other oceanic birds Alcatros, or Alcatrass. Dampier applied this 

 name to the present genus, Grew changed it into Albitross, and Edwards into Alba- 

 tross. 



