BRITISH BIRDS. 
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running on foot, or fkimming over the furface of 
the heavy rolling waves of the molt tempeftuous 
fea, quite at eafe, and in fecurity ; and yet it feems 
to forefee, and fear the coming ftorm, long before 
the feaman can difcover any appearance of its ap- 
proach ; and this thefe little fure prognofticators 
make known by flocking together under the wake of 
the fliip, as if to flicker themfelves from it, or to warn 
the mariners, and prepare them to guard againft 
the danger. They are filent during the day, and 
their clamorous piercing voice is heard only in the 
night. In the, breeding feafon they betake them- 
felves to the promontories, where, in the fifsures of 
the focks, they breed and rear their young, which 
they conduct to the watery element as foon as they 
are able to crawl, and immediately lead them for- 
ward to roam, with themfelves, over the dreary 
and tracklefs wake. 
. Mr Pennant, on the authority of Brunnich, fays, 
that the inhabitants of the Ferro Ifles make this 
bird ferve the purpofes of a candle, by drawing a 
wick through the mouth and rump, which being 
lighted, the flame is fed by the fat and oil of the 
body.” Like others of this genus, it fquirts oil 
from its bill on the face of its enemy. 
Although it has been generally faid that thefe 
birds are never feen but at fea, except' during the 
period of incubation ; yet fome inftances occur of 
their having been fliot inland. Mr Latham fpeaks 
