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SHEARWATER Procellaria Pufficus, Lin, Syft. i. p. 213 6.—Brun. N° I J 9. «-./««». fou/, 



P. N° 56 —Mulkr, p. 18. 



■ Le Puffin £7-//". CV». vi. p. 131. \.—Buf. Oif. be. p. 321.—?/. £,,/. 963. 

 Avis Diomedea, or Artenna, Rait S)n. p. 133. i.— Will. Om. p. 332.-— 



Seep. Ar.m\. N° 96. 

 Manks Puffin, ica/z Syn. p. 134, A, 4. — Will. Oni- p. 333- — Ed<w. pi. 379, 

 Shearwater, Raii Syn. p. 133. A. 2. — #"'7//. Ora.'p. 334. — Br. Zeol.N" 25S, 

 —Ar8. Zocl. N° 462. 



#•, Jkf*/. Zifw Muf. 



Description. T ENGTH fifteen inches: weight feventeen ounces. The 

 bill is an inch and three quarters long, of a yellow colour, 

 with the tip black : the upper parts of the body, wings, tail, and 

 thighs, black : the under, from chin to vent, white : the legs 

 weak, comprefied on the fides, whitifh before, and dufky behind. 

 Brijfmfs bird is rather bigger, but correfponds in refpect to 

 defcription. 

 Place and This is found in the North of England; but particularly in the 



Mansers. Calf of Man, and the Orknies. Alfo in Denmark, Iceland, Green- 

 land, and_no doubt in other parts far north. To the firft they re- 

 Tort in February, take a fhort pofiefiion of the rabbit-burrows, 

 and then difappear till April, when they return. They lay one 

 white egg, blunt at each end : the young are fit to take the be- 

 ginning of Auguft, when great numbers are killed by the perfon 

 who farms the'ifie. They are falted and barrelled, and when 

 boiled, eaten with -potatoes. During the day they keep at fea 

 riming, and towards evening return to their young, which they 

 feed in the fame manner as the Fulmar 1 they quit the ifle by the 

 end of Auguft or beginning of September* In the Orknies they 



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