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fecond, and in like manner a third, which flie is 
generally permitted to hatch, and rear the young 
one. * The male and female hatch and filh by 
turns ; the fifher returns to the neft with five or fix 
herrings in its gorget, all entire and undigefted, 
which the hatcher pulls out from the throat of its 
provider, and fwallows them, making at the fame ' 
time a loud noife.” 
Thefe birds are common on the coafts of Nor- 
way and Iceland, and are faid to be met with in 
great numbers about New Holland and New Zea- 
land ; they breed alfo on the coafts of Newfound- 
land^ and migrate fouthward along ^the American 
fliores as far as South Carolina : they are noticed, 
indeed, by navigators,' as being met with, dif- 
perfed over both hemifpheres, and are probably 
one great family fpread over the whole globe ; but 
their greatefl known rendezvous is the Hebrides 
and other folitary rocky ifles of North Britain, 
where their nefls, in the months of May and June, 
^ “ The Solan Geefe have always fome of their number that 
keep watch in the night time, and if the centinel is furprifed, 
(as it often happens) all that flock are taken, one after another ; 
but if the centinel be awake at the approach of the creeping 
fowlers, and hear a noife, he cries foftly Grog^ Grog, at which 
the flock do not move ; but if this centinel fee or hear the fowl- 
er approaching, he cries loftly Blr, Bir, which would feem to 
import danger, fince immediately after, all the tribe take wing, 
leaving the difappointed fowlers without any profpe<ft of fuccefa 
for that night.’’ 
