PETREL, 



This fpecies of Gull was difcovered by Mr. Htit chins, in Hud- 

 Jon's Bay. Its bill is black, and three inches long : head, neck, 

 breafl, and belly, of an uniform brown : primaries black ; coverts and 

 fcapulars brown, marked with white : tail black, Ipeckled and tipt 

 with white. Length twenty-three inches j extent four feet and a half; 

 weight two pounds and a half Perhaps a young Skua Gull ; the natives 

 call it Keajh. 



To the genus oi Petrel may be added the following fpecies. 



Latham, vi. 396.— Quebrantahueffos, Bong. Voy. S^.—Cooi's Foy.n. 205.— Fur- 

 Jier's Voy. 516. — Be Buffon, ix. 519. 



P. With a very ftrong bill, four inches and a half long, much 

 hooked at the end, and of a fine yellow, like that of polifhed box; the 

 tube reaches to the commencement of the hook. At the corners of the 

 mouth is a naked yellow fkin r the crown is dufky : hind part of the 

 neck and back light brown, mottled v/ith dirty white : wings, fcapulars, 

 and tail, an uniform dufky brown : fore part of the neck, breaft, and 

 belly, white : legs fhort, ftrong, and of a greyifli yellow: the fpur very 

 ftrong and ftiarp. Length forty inches ; extent of wings feven feet : 

 equal in body to a goofe. 



Thefe birds are very common off the weftern coaft o^ North America, 

 and in the fea between that continent and Kamtfchatka, and quite cover 

 the rocks of the intervening chain of ides with their numbers. Steller 

 faw multitudes feeding on a dead whale, two hundred verfts from land. 

 They fpread over the ocean like the little fpecies of Petrel, and like it 

 is the harbinger of ftorms. Sailors diflike their appearance, and call 

 them Mother Carys Geeje, as they do the leffer kind her Chickens. Mo- 

 ther Cary was probably a witch, prqteftrefs of thefe ominous birds : for 

 fcamen as well as landmen had their belief in the weird fitters, who 



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