PETREL. 401 



Found within the Antarctic circle, all round. Met with in Place. 



flights of twenty or more, in lat. 61. 36. S. It is obferved that 

 the fullnefs of plumage is more confpicuous in this fort of 

 birds than in others ; nature having taken care to fuit them to the 

 climate wherein they are to live. 



Procellaria Capenfis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 213. 5.— Amcen. Acad.'vt.y. z\o.—- 01*™ inn o 



+■ PINTADO P. 

 OJb. Voy. p. 46. 



Le Petrel tachete, ou le Damier, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 146. 3.— iJaf, Qif. \x. 



p. 304. pi. z 1 . — PI. Enl. 964. — Fernet. Voy. ii. p. 72. 



Pardela, Ulloa Voy. ii. p. 304. 



White and black fpotted Peteril, Edw. pi. 90. 



Pintado Bird, Damp. Voy. iii. pi. in p. 96. fig. 1. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of the Kittiwake Gull : length fourteen inches. Bill an Description. 



inch and a half long, and black : the head, hind part of the 

 neck, quills, and tail, black : fides of the head mottled black 

 and white : all the under parts whitifh, irregularly marked with 

 fpots of black : legs black. 



They are apt to vary much in plumage. 



Thefe birds are, we believe, confined to the foulbern hemi- Place and 

 fphere, being feldom feen much to the north of 30 degrees. 

 Are moft frequent about the Cape of Good Hope *, and neigh- 

 bouring parts. Are called by our failors Cape Pigeons. They 

 fly many together ; feldom high, but almoft fweeping the fur- 

 face of the water f. Sometimes appear in fuch immenfe numbers 

 that feven hundred have been taken in one night %. The failors 



* Dampier, and others. — Said by failors to be a fure prefage of a near ap- 

 proach to that promontory. 



t Dampier. J At Ma/o Fuero. — Haiukef. Voy. i. p. 556. 



Vol. Ill, 3 F often 



Manners, 



