210 STORMY PETREL. Class II. 



but a little attention to the text of each of those 

 antient naturalists, is sufficient to evince that 

 they are very different birds ; the latter very ac- 

 curately describes the characters of that species 

 of swallow; while Pliny expresses the very 

 manner of life of our Fetrd. 



" Nidificant in scopuiis, has sunt quae toto 

 mart cernuntiir: nee unquam tarn longo naves, 

 tamque continuo cursu recedunt a terra, ut non 

 circumvolitent eas Apodes." Lib. x. c. 39- - 



In August 1772, I found them on the rocks 

 called Macdo72ald's Table, off the north end of 

 the Isle of She; so conjecture they breed there. 

 They lurked under the loose stones, but betray- 

 ed themselves by their twittering noise. 



