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and perhaps on shrimps and prawns, for I found no other 

 food they coukl get. 



I shot but one single bird of them flying, which I did not 

 eat of, because the Large shot had torn it very much. 



This bird is quite grey in our countries, which diflfers 

 much from that of Spitzhergen, whose feathers are much finer. 

 That here delineated was shot by the Birds Sotuj in Sjntz- 

 bergefi, on the 20th of June. 



11. Of the Mallemucke.i 



This bird hath a remarkable bill, which is severally di- 

 vided : the uppermost bill hath next to the head oblong and 

 small nostrils ; underneath them groweth out as it was a new 

 bill, that rises up, is crooked, and very sharp-pointed. 



The under part of the bill consists partly of four pieces, 

 two whereof meet in a point together downwards, the other 

 two gape upwards ; the two undermost that meet in a point, 

 meet exactly with the point of the upper bill. The hinder 

 claw of the feet of this bird is very small, of a grey colour, 

 and so are the other claws and the skin between them. The 

 tail is somewhat broad, the wings are longish, after the man- 

 ner of the kirmew. They are not always of the same colour; 

 some are quite grey, which we take to be the oldest, others 

 are grey on their back and wings, but their head and belly 

 are white, which are the young ones. This is generally 

 thought, but I am of opinion that this difference of colour 

 proceeds rather from a difference in kind than from a differ- 

 ence in age ; for the grey ones I only saw about Sjnfzbergen, 

 but the grey and white ones, although I have seen some few 

 of them at Spitzbergen, yet we saw abundance more about 

 the North Cape, and also about Hitland and Engla7id. He 

 flies like a great mew, hovers near the water with a very 

 small motion of his wings. 



^ The Fulmar Petrel {P rocdlaria glacialis). 



