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natives while fishing. It is asserted, that they are so fat, that no more 

 is required than to squeeze the skins, through which the fat runs like oil, 

 and is used for the same purposes. Numbers are caught on the fourth 

 and fifth Kurilski Islands, which the inhabitants dry in the sun, and 

 use for food. This species is also in sufficient plenty in the Antarctic 

 Regions from the Cape of Good Hope, to as far south as has been 

 explored ; and indeed in greater or smaller numbers, from 34 to 70 

 degrees S. latitude, all round the Pole.* 



A.— Gen. Syn. vi. 405. Var. A. Ind. Orn. ii. 823. /3. 



Size of the last. Bill black ; head, neck, body, and tail, white; 

 between the wings pale ash-colour ; the whole of the latter dusky 

 black; legs dusky. — Inhabits the Antarctic Ocean, met with pretty 

 far south. 



B. In the British Museum is one, nearly twenty inches in 



length ; with a dark streak through the eye ; tail dusky, pointed at 

 the end ; legs pale, almost white. 



11— SHEARWATER PETREL. 



Procellaria Puffinus, Ind. Orn. ii. 824. Lin. i. 213. Gm. Lin. i. 566. Brun. No. 119. 



Midler, p. 18. Fn.groenl, No. 56. Bris. vi. 131. Id. 8vo. ii. 395. Klein, 139. 



Br. Jam. 482. Borowsk. iii. 37. Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. 806. Parry's App. ccx. 

 Le Puffin, Buf. ix. 321. PL enl. 962. 

 Shearwater Petrel, Gen. Syn. vi. 406. Id. Sup. 269. Br. Zool. ii. No. 258. Id. 1812. 



ii. 206. Fl. Scot. i. No. 198. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 246. Lewin, ii. pi. 218. xlv. 1. 



the egg. Wale. i. pi. 90. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill one inch and three quarters, 

 yellow, with a black tip ; plumage above ash-colour, the feathers 

 with paler margins, chiefly on the back ; the scapulars, wings, and 



* Forst. Voy. i. p. 52. Id. ii. 534. Cook's Voy, i. p. 252. 



