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PROCELLARIA PELAGICA. 
the boat which was suspended by the ship’s 
watching' their movements, until it was so dark 
the eye could no longer follow them, though I co“ J 
still hear their low note of weet west, as they j^proachf" 
near to the vessel below me. 
These birds are sometimes driven by violent storo*^ 
to a considerable distance inland. One was shot 
years ago on the river Schuylkill near Philadelpb'*' 
and Bewick mentions their being found in vario^ 
quarters of the interior of England. From the nato'; 
of their food, their flesh is rank and disagreeably! 
though they sometimes become so fat, that, as 
Pennant, on the authority of Brunnicb, asserts, “ If 
inhabitants of the Feme Isles make them serve w 
purposes of a candle, by drawing a wick through '*'1 
mouth and rump, which being lighted, the flame is 
by the fat and oil of the body.”* 
• JSntigh Zoologify vol. ii, p. 434. 
