434 LITTLE PETREL. Clafs II. 



potatoes. During the day they keep at fea, fifhing •, 

 and towards evening return to their young ; whom 

 they feed, by difcharging the contents of their 

 ftomachs into their mouths •, which by that time is 

 turned into oil. They quit the ifle the latter end of 

 Augujl, or beginning of September-, and, from ac- 

 counts lately received from navigators, we have rea- 

 fon to imagine, that like t\\z Jlorm-fincb, they are dif- 

 perfed over the whole Atlantic ocean. 



III. The STORMFINCH. 



The Storm-finck. Chjli exct. vi. 140, tab. \Ty.jig. I. 



368. Procellaria pelagica. Lin. fyfi. 



Wit. orn. 395. 212. 



Small Petrel. Edtv. aw. go. Stormwaders vogel. Faun. Suec. 



Borlaf's Carnival. Zq.J. tab. 29. fp. 143. 



The Gourder. Smith's biji. Kerry. Korvegis Soren Peder. St. Peders 



186. Fugl, Verkn-vinds Are. Son- 



Affilag. Martin 'svoy. St. Kilda. der.-vinds Fugl, Uveyrs Fugl 



34. nonnullis, Hare. Feroenjibus 



Sib. biji. Fife. 48. Strunkvit. Brun.ilj. 



Procellaria, le Petrel. Briffon a<v. Little Petrel. Br. Zool. 146. 



Defer. HP HIS bird is about the fize of the houfe fwallow ; 

 JL but the wings are of a much greater length. 

 The whole bird is black, except the coverts of the tail 

 and vent-feathers, which are white : the bill is hook- 

 ed at the end j the noftrils tubular : the legs (lender, 

 and long. It has the fame faculty of fpouting oil 

 from its bill, as the other fpecies : and Mr. Brunnicb 

 tells us, that the inhabitants of the Fence ijles make 

 this bird ferve the purpofes of a candle, by drawing a 

 wick through the mouth and rump, which being 



lighted, 



