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fowls at once in my life before, their numbers 

 being inconceivably great : they were of divers 

 forts, in bignefs, fliape and colour. Some were 

 almoft as big as geefe, of a grey colour, with 

 white breafts, and with fuch bills, wings, and 

 tails. Some were Pintado-birds (our white and 

 black fpotted Peteril) as big as ducks, and 

 fpcckled black ^and white. Some were Shear- 

 waters, fome Peterils. We faw of thefe birds, 

 efpecially the Pintado- birds, all the fea over, 

 from about two hundred leagues diftant from 

 the coaft of Brafil, to within much the fame dif- 

 tance of New Holland. The Pintado is a fouthern 

 bird, keeping within the Southern Temperate 

 Zone, for I never faw any of them much to the 

 northward of thirty degrees fouth : the Pintado 

 is as big as a duck, but appears, as it flies, about 

 the fize of a tame pigeon." 



Of the Little Peteril I have feen a great many 

 together, in the midfl of the more northern or 

 wideft part of the German Ocean, where they 

 muft have been more than 100 Englifli miles 

 from land. It is flrange that fo fmall a bird 

 fliould be able to fubfift in fuch open feas, where 



they 



