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often catch them with fome tarred firing, or a piece of lard on a 

 fiJhi?tg-rod*. Damper obferves, that he met with them in greater! 

 plenty from about two hundred leagues from the coaft of Brafilto 

 within much the fame diftance of the coaft of New Holland. Our 

 voyagers traced them to New Zealand -f, Falkland IJles, and many 

 other parts ; and indeed they feem to be fcattered all round the 

 South Pole. One of their breeding-places is in Kerguelen's Land. 

 The egg of the fize of that of a Pullet, and laid in December J. 

 When caught it makes a noife not unlike a Parrot; and fpirts 

 out oil from the noftrils into the face of the perfon who holds it. 

 It feeds on fijh, but more frequently on the dead carcafes of 

 Whales, &c. about which at times it is feen in vaft numbers §. 

 Variety. In the IJle of Defolation our laft voyagers met with a flrong va- 



riety, which differed in having fuch parts as are white in the 

 common one, of a fine cream or buff-colour : the tail white, tipped 

 with black : and the bafe of the quills white : legs brown : webs 

 black: and two of the inner toes orange in the middle. 

 This is in the collection of Sir Jojeph Banks. 



* OJb. Voy. i. p. 109. f Forft. Voy. i. p. 489. 



% Cook's laft Voy. i. p. 86. 



§ Ives mentions, that'when caught and brought on board a fhip, they cannot 

 rife for flight from the deck, but will moll readily do fo out of a tub of water* 



■ — See Voy, p. 5, 



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