398 PETREL. 



2. Le, Puffin du Brefil, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 138. ^.—Buf. Oif. ix. p. 337. IV, 

 BRASILIAN P. Majague, Rail Syn. p. 133. 3 Will. Orn. p. 334. pi. 62. 



Description. *T^HIS fpecies, according Co TVillughby, is of the fize of a Goofe. 

 The bill hooked : the head round and thick : the neck 

 long : the whole bird of a dufky and blackifh. colour, except the 

 fore part of the neck, which is adorned with yellow feathers. 

 Place. Inhabits Brafil, about the mouths of rivers ; but builds the 



neft, and lays the eggs, on fhore. It is a fwift bird, fwim- 

 ming and diving well. Its flefh very good meat, efpecially if 

 young. We, are not certain whether this is a Petrel or not ; but 

 think right to follow Briffbn's opinion of its belonging to that 

 genus, till farther demonftration mail evince the contrary. 



3. Procellaria Eequino&ialis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 213. 4. 



+■ BLACK P. L e p u ffi n <j u Cap de Bonne Efperance, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 137. 



Le Petrel-Puffin brun, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 326. 

 Shearwater, Brown Jam. p. 482. 

 Great black Petrel, Edw. pi. 89. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. 



C I Z E of a Raven : length twenty-three inches. The bill is 

 three inches long, and the tubes of the noftrils half an 

 inch ; the whole bill is of a yellowifh colour, the futures of 

 it black : the whole body blackifh brown : legs, toes, and webs, 

 brown : claws black. 



This varies in having the upper ridge of the bill black, and a 

 large fpot of white on the chin *. 



* In lat. 35. 15. S. long. 7. 45. W. Cook's loft Voy. i. p. 36.— But in this 

 the bill and legs were both black. 



Inhabits 



