PETREL. 407 



make the neft in holes on the earth, near the fhelves of the 

 rocks and headlands : called there the Lyre, and greatly valued, 

 both on account of being ufed as food, and for the feathers. Are 

 faked and ufed as in the Calf of Man. They alfo take the old 

 ones in March ; but they are then poor, and not fo well tailed as 

 the young. They appear firft in thofe iflands in February *. 



They alfo frequent the Atlantic f and Southern % Oceans, being 

 met with by our voyagers in various places of the lafL 



Le Puffin cendre, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 134. N° 2. pi. 12. fig. 1. n, 



Le Petrel cendre, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 30Z. pi. 20. Var. A. 



'"PHIS is about the fize of the Shearwater, or laft fpecies. Description, 



The bill above two inches long, and black : the hind part of 

 the head whitifh, with a tinge of afh-colour: the reft of the 

 upper parts of an elegant afh-colour : fore part of the head, and 

 under part of the body, fnow white : the baftard wing fpotted 

 with black : quills outwardly black : tail white : legs grey 

 brown. 



Inhabits the northern regions. It is probably the brown Shear- Place.. 



water, which has often a white ring round the neck, {een by 

 Kalm every where from our channel to the American coaft. He 

 fays it has a peculiar flow way of flying, and may be plainly feen. 

 to feed on fifh ||. 



• Br. ZoeT. 



+ Every where from our channel to the American coaft. — Kaim Tra-v. i. p. 23. 

 J 25 deg. S. Ferji. Foy. i. p. 50.— New Zealand. Id. i. p. 487. — Cook's 

 iaft Voy. iii. p. 175. * 



|| Trav. i. p. 23. 



8- £*•■»» 



