SHEA R-W A T E R, &c. P E T R E L, ^ 



I'aalfo eaten, and ferves to fupply their lamps with oil. The prey of 

 thefc birds being chiefly the blubber of cetaceous fifli, it is quickly con- 

 verted into oil, which, ferves the Fulmars for a double end ; as a fufte- 

 uance for the young, and a defence againft their afTailants j for they 

 Ipurt it, on being feized, out of their mouths and noftrils, into the 

 faces of the perfons who lay hold of them. The Greenlanders take 

 them by darting them in the water. 



535 



Sr.ZooJ.ii. N" 258.— iVw. y/f. 359. — Procellari^ PuiEnus, Li». Sjifi. 21^,— - 

 Latham, iii. — ^Lev. Mws, 



p^ "With a dufky bill, more flender than that of the former : head, 

 wings, and whole upper part of the body, of a footy blacknefs : 

 lower part, from chin to tail, and the inner coverts of the wings, white : 

 legs weak, compreffed; whitifh before, dulky behind. Length. 

 fifteen inches. Extent thirty-one. Weight feventeen ounces. 



Inhabits the northern ^zxt^oi Eurofe, Iceland, and Greenland. Con- 

 Ibrt with the laft in Greenland : and, in mifty weather, quite cover 

 the fea. It extends, in the Atlantic ocean,, to America, and again al- 

 moft to the Cap of Good Hope* ; and is alfo found in the fouthern 

 hemifphere, having been feen in fouth lat. 13. 13, in Captain Cc^oFi- 

 paffage from Eajler idand to Otaheite f : and again, in numbers, as 

 tow as cape De/eada, in,fouth latitude 53 J. 



462. Sheaii* 



WJlTER. 



Flacj. 



"P^ With the whole upper and under parts of a cinerous grey: bill 463. Fork-taii.. 



much hooked, and black : lefler coverts of wings dufky ; great- 

 er, deep grey : exterior webs of primaries dufky j interior, light grey ; 

 tail forked, andof a light grey. Length nine inches. 



Taken among the ice between AJia and America. PtAci. 



• Coiik's ¥oj. to S.P sU, iz. I J. 



t Ibid. 



X aid,. 



