Crass Il. SHEAR-WATER PETREL. 
to be taken the beginning of dugust, when 
great numbers are killed by the person who 
farms the isle: they are salted and barelled, 
and when they are boiled, are eaten with pota- 
toes. During the day they keep at sea, fish- 
ing ; and towards evening return to their young, 
whom they feed, by discharging the contents of 
their stomachs into their mouths; which by 
that time is turned into oil. By reason of the 
backward situation of their legs they sit quite 
erect. They quit the isle the latter end of 4u- 
gust, or beginning of September ; and, from ac- 
counts lately received from navigators, we have 
reason to imagine, that like the Storm-finch, they 
are dispersed over the whole Atlantic ocean. 
This species inhabits also the Orkney isles, 
where it makes its nest in holes on the earth near 
the shelves of the rocks and headlands; it is 
called there the Lyre, and is much valued, both 
on account of its serving as food, and for its fea- 
thers. ‘The inhabitants take and salt them in 
August for winter provisions, when they boil 
them with cabbage ; they also take the old ones 
in March ; but they are then poor, and not so_ 
well tasted as the young: they appear first in 
those islands in February. 
