85* SHEA R-W ATER Class It 



as Mr. Ray fuppofes in the Scitty-ijles : they refort 

 to the former in February, take a fhort porTefllon 

 of the rabbet burrows, and then difappear till April: 

 they^ lay one egg, white and blunt at each end ; 

 and the young are fit to be taken the beginning of 

 Auguft\ when great numbers are killed by the per- 

 fon who farms the ifle : they are faked and barel- 

 led ; and when they are boiled, are eaten with po- 

 tatoes. During the day they keep at fea, filhing ; 

 and towards evening return to their young ; cvhom 

 they feed, by difcharging the contents of their 

 fromachs into their mouths ; which by that time is 

 turned into oil : by reaibn of the backward fituation 

 of their legs they fit quite erect. They quit the 

 ifle the latter end of Augv.fi, or beginning of Sep- 

 tember; and, from accounts lately received frorrr 

 navigators, we have reafon to imagine, that like 

 the ftorm-finch, they are difperfed over the whole 

 Atlantic ocean. 



This fpecies inhabits alfo the Orkney ifles, where 

 it makes its neft in holes on the earth near the 

 fhelves of the rocks and headlands ; it is called 

 there the Lyre-, and is much valued there, both on 

 account of its being a food, and for its feathers. 

 The inhabitants take and fait them in Auguft for 

 winter provifions, when they boil them with cab- 

 bage. They alfo take the old ones in March ; but 

 they are then poor, and not fo well tailed as the 

 young: they appear fir ft in thofe iflands in Fe- 

 bruary. 



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