208 
3. STORMY. 
Descrip- 
TION. 
STORMY PETREL. 
Procellaria pelagica. Pr. nigra 
uropygio albo. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 826. id. Syn. vi. 411. 
#d. Sup. i. 269. 
The Storm-finck. Clusii exoé. 
368. 
Wil. orn. 395. 
Small Petrel. Edw. av. 90. 
Borlase’s Cornwal. 247. tab. 
29. 
The Gourder. 
Kerry. 186. 
Assilag. Martin's voy. St. 
Kilda. 34. - 
Sib. hist. Fife. 48. 
Procellaria, le Petrel. Brisson 
Smiths hist. 
\ 
Cuass II. 
av. vi. 140. gab. 13. fig. 1-. 
Hist. dois. ix. 327. Pl. 
Enl. 993. 
Procellaria pelagica. Gm. Lin: 
561. Scopoli, No. 95.. 
Stromwaders vogel. Faun. 
Suec. sp. 143. 
Norvegis Soren Peder. St. 
Peders Fugl, Vesten-vinds 
Are Fugl, 
Uveyrs Fugl: nonnullis, 
Hare. Feroensibus Strunk- 
vit. Brun. 117. 
Little Petrel. Br. Zool. 146. 
Tab. L. 5. Arct. Zool. it. 
255. 
Sonden-vinds 
Tuis bird is about the bulk of the house swal- 
low; the length six inches ; the extent of wings 
thirteen. ‘The whole bird is black, except the 
coverts of the tail and vent-feathers, which are 
white; the bill is hooked at the end; the nos- 
trils tubular; the legs slender, and long. It 
has the same faculty of spouting oil from its bill 
as the other species; and Mr. Brunnich tells 
us, that the inhabitants of the Ferroe isles make 
this bird serve the purposes of a-candle, by 
drawing a wick through the mouth and rump, 
which being lighted, the flame is fed by the fat 
and oil of the body. Except in breeding time 
