Class II. SHEA R-W ATER, 55 t 



fifhers in great flocks, and that when a whale is ta- 

 ken, will, in fpiteof all endeavours, light on it and 

 pick out large lumps of fat, even when the animal 

 is alive. That the whales are often difcovered at fea 

 by the multitudes of Mallemuckes flying; and that 

 when one of the former are wounded, prodigious 

 multitudes immediately follow its bloody track. 

 He adds, that it is a mod gluttonous bird, eating 

 till it is forced to difgorge its food. 



Avis Diomedea, Artenna. Procellaria Puffinus. Lin.fyft. 2 c8. Shear- 

 Aldr. ay. III. 36. 213. Water. 



Manks Puffin. JFz7. or/z. 333. Puffinus, le Puffin. Br if on 



Rail fyn. a-z>. 134.. a~j. VI. 1 3 1, tab. 12. fig. 



Shearwater. Idem. 133. 1. is a variety of it. 



WiL orn. 334. Feroenjibus Skrabe. Nor^uegis 



Patines de oviedo. Rati fyn. Skraap, Pull us. Feroenjibus 

 au. 191. Liere. Brunnich, 119. 



Edw. a-v, 359. Manks Petrel. Br. Zool. 146,, 



THE length of this fpecies is fifteen inches; Bescri; 

 the breadth thirty-one: the weight kven- 

 teen ounces : the bill is an inch and three-quar- 

 ters long ; noftrils tubular, but not very promi- 

 nent : the head, and whole upper fide of the body, 

 wings, tail, and thighs, are of a footy blacknefs ; 

 the under fide from chin to tail, and inner coverts 

 of the wings, white : the legs weak, and com- 

 preffed fideways ; dufky behind, whitifh before. 

 Thefe birds are found in the Calf 'of Man : and 

 O ^ as 



