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fpecies to have been undefcribed ; for 
the birds that bear the fame name are 
mentioned by every writer, who treat 
of them as tar inferior in fize to this j 
fome compare their bulk to that of a 
duck ; but none make it larger than a 
goofe ; the colours alfo of this fpecies 
are too finking not to have been taken 
notice of, had it been before difco- 
vered. 
Captain Mac-Bride was fo obliging as to 
inform us that this was a very fcarce 
fpecies ; though he faw in the fame 
place multitudes of the leffer kind, with 
which it agreed in its manner of life. 
Since the natural hiftory of each fpecies 
is the fame, we fliall give a general 
view of the oeconomy, &c. from fuch 
writers who have treated of them. 
It is agreed that they are inhabitants of 
fouthern latitudes only, being, as far as 
is yet known, found only on the coafls of 
South America, from Port Defire to the 
Straits of Magellan ; and, if we re- 
member right, Frezier fays, they are 
found on the weflern fhore, as high as 
Conception. In Africa they feem to 
be unknown, except on a frnall ifle 
near the Cape of Good Hope, which 
takes its name from them. 
They are found in prodigious numbers on 
land during the breeding feafon ; for 
they feldom come afhore but at that 
2 time ; 
