O64 BIRDS. 
lix, 6; Edw. 90, is scarcely larger than a Lark; stands high; ail 
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, with Brisson, under the name of 
PurFinvs, 
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 cendré, En]. 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 }. 
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 Procellaria 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 
PrerecanoiwEs, Lacép.—Haropromasy 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 Procellaria urinatrix, Gm., and 
Pacuypriza, Illig. 
Or the Prions, Lacep., which, similar in other respects to the Petrels, 
have separate nostrils like a Puffin, the bill widened at the base, and its 
edges furnished internally with very delicate, vertical and pointed lamine, 
analogous to those of ducks, Such are the Blue Petrels, Proc. vittata 
and c@rulea, Forst. 
DiomepeEaf, Lin. 
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, pl. 9, f. 1;—Proc. Wilsonii, Ch.’ 
Bonap.; Wils. VII, Ixx, 6; Id. Act. de Phil. VI, pl. 9, f. 2;—Proc. fregatta, Lath., 
Rochef., Antill. p. 152;—Proc. marina, Vieill. Gal. 292. 
~+ Add, Proc. obscura, Vieill. Gal. 301; and Proc. pacifica, or fuliginosa, White, 
252, which perhaps does not differ from the Proc. equinoctialis, Edw. 89. 
{ 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 tothe 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 dlbitross, and Edwards into Alba- 
tross. 
