PETREL. 411 



which he merely fays, that it is lefs than the Stormy Petrel 5 

 black above/ and white beneath. 



Found in latitude 37 fouth. In a fecond drawing, I obferve Place. 



the rump to be very pale, nearly approaching to white. 



18. 

 STORMY P. 



Procellaria pelagica, tin. Sy/l. 1. p. 212. I. — Faun, Suec. N° 143. — Amain. 



Acad. iv. p. 587. — Scop. Ann. i. N° g^.—Muller, N° 143. — And. led. 



ii. pi. 1. 

 Le Petrel, Brif. Om. vi. p. 140. 1. pi. 13. fig. I. 

 L'Oifeau de tempete, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 327. pi. 23. — PL Enl. 993. 

 Storm-finch, or Little Pitterel, Catejb. Car. App. pi. 14. — Ediv. pi. 90.— 



Borlaf. Corn. p. 247. pi. 29. — Albin, iii. pi. 92. — Will. Om. p. 395. 



— Damp. Voy. iii. p. 97. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 259. pi. 91. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Ma/. 



IZE of a Swallow: length fix inches : breadth thirteen inches. Description. 

 Bill black: the general colour of the plumage is black, 

 but paler on the under parts, where it inclines to foot- colour : the 

 ends of the fecond quills, rump, and vent, white ; and the four 

 outer tail feathers are white on the inner webs at the bafe : the 

 wings, when clofed, are half an inch longer than the tail : the 

 legs are long and black. 



Thefe birds are fufficiently common, though feldommet with Place and 

 but at fea*; and feem to be difperfed all over the Atlantic ocean. 

 Flocks of them are for the mo ft part feen about the fnips in full fail, 

 but particularly in ftormy weather, in the wake of the fhip, to 

 which they feem to refort for fhelter from the violence of the waves. 



* One was (hot at Sandwich, in Kent, in a ftorm of wind, among a flock of 

 Hoopoes, in January. Mr. Boys. — Another at Waltham/to<w, in E/fex, now in the 

 Leverian Mu/eum. — A third has not long fince been fhot at Oxford. 



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