MANKS PUFFIN, 
They probably sail away to more southern 
regions, never coming on land but to nestle; 
and always attending the shoals of little mi- 
gratory fish, or their colle6lions of spawn, , 
[on both which they feed. f 
; BufFon says, that " this species is common 
on all seas; for it is the same with the Jamaica 
Shear- Water of Brown, and the Artenna of 
Aldrovandus. In short, it seems to frequent 
^equally, the diiFerent portions of the ocean, 
and even to advance into the Mediterranean, " 
as far as the Gulph of Venice and the Tre- 
rniti Isles, anciently called the Isles of Dio- 
mede. All that Aldrovandus says, whether 
^f the figure or of the natural habits of hi§ 
rArtenna, corresponds with those of the Shear- 
Water. He assures us, that the cry of these 
birds resembles exaftly the wailing of a new- 
born infant. Finally, he is disposed to believe 
that they are the Birds of Diomede, famous 
in antiquity for an afFe6ling fable : it was of 
those Greeks who, with their valiant leader, 
pursued by the wrath of the gods, were found 
in those islands metamorphosed into birds; 
which, still retaining something human, and a 
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