PLATE CCXLI. 



Le l^uffin, Buff, ix. p. ?m.— FL EriL 96^2. 

 Mauks Puffin, Edw. t. 379 — Will. (Angl) p. 333. 

 Shearwatek Petrel, Brit. Zool. 11. N° 258. — Id. foL 146. t. 



M,—Ara. Zool. 11. ]V° 462.— P/or. Scot, I. 



No 198.— .Lf////. Spi. VI. p. 406. 11.— M Sup. 



p. '£69. 



The Shearwater Petrel is about lixteen inches in length, the pre- 

 vailing colour of the plumage black above, beneath white. 



As a Britifh bird the fpecies is almoft entirely confined to the 

 northern fea coafts, particularly to the Calf of Man and the Orknies. 

 As a northern bird the fpecies is known to extend as far as Denmark, 

 Iceland, and Greenland ; and it has been belides obferved in the Arftic 

 regions, and in the fouthern feas. Kalm fays it is every where common 

 in the Atlantic, from our channel to the coaft of America. 



Except in the breeding ieafon thefe birds are chiefly obferved out 

 at fea, and not unfrequently at a confiderable diftance from the land. 

 They frequent the Ihores in fpring, about February, March, and April, 

 but only for a fliort time at intervals. During their ftay on ihore, 

 like many other of the fea- birds, they take pofTeffion of fome rabbit 

 burrows which are either before deferted, or the inmates of which, 

 they expel, and there bring up their young. The female Shearwater 

 lays but one egg, which is blunt at each end : the young are taken in 

 the beginning of Auguft in great numbers, killed, falted, and barrelled, 

 and are eaten boiled with potatoes, ' Some are pickled like the young 



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