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SPECIES II. The 
Manks Puffin. Wit. orn. 333. 
Rail fyn. av. 134 - 
Shearwater. idem. 133. 
JVil. orn . 334. 
D S. [Clafs II. 
Manks Petrel. Plate 
Patines de oviedo ? Rail fyn.av. 191. 
Edw. av. 359. 
Puffinus. Brijfon av. VI. 131. Tab. 
12. Fig. 1. is a variety of it. 
Ta 
H IS fpecies is about the fize of the 
common gull; the bill is an inch and 
three quarters long 5 the noftrils tu¬ 
bular, but not very prominent: the head, and 
whole upper fide of the body, wings, tail, and 
thighs, are of a footy blacknefs ; the under fide 
from chin to tail, and inner coverts of the wings, 
white ; the legs weak, and comprefled fide ways; 
dulky behind, whitilh before. 
Thefe birds are found in the Calf of Man: 
and, as Mr. Ray fuppofes, in the Scilly-iftes : they 
refort to the former in February $ take a fhort 
pofieftion of the rabbet borroughs, and then dif- 
appear till April : they lay one egg ; and the 
young are fit to take the beginning of Auguft ; 
when great numbers are killed by the perfon who 
farms the ifie : they are falted, and barrelled , and 
when ufed are boiled, and eat with potatoes. 
During the day they keep at fea, fifhing; and 
towards evening return to their young ; whom 
they feed, by difcharging the contents of their 
ftomachs into their mouths ; which by that time 
is turned into oil. They quit the ifle the latter 
end of Auguft , or beginning of September. 
S P E C I E S III. The little Petrel. Plate £ 5. 
The ftorm-finck. IdTd. orn. 395. 
Small petrel. Edzv. av. go. 
Borlafe CornwaJ. 247. Tab. 29. 
The gourder. Smiths hijt. Kerry 
18 6. 
Affilag, Martin's voy. St. Kilda 34. 
r“T |—\ HIS bird is about the fize of the houfer < 
fwallow ; but the wings are of a much 
greater length. The whole bird is 
black, except the coverts of the tail, and vent fea¬ 
thers, which are white : the bill is hooked at the 
end 5 the noftrils tubular : the legs (lender, and 
long. It has the fame faculty of fpouting oil from 
its bill, as the other fpecies \ and Mr. Brun - 
nich tells us, that the inhabitants of the Ferroe 
ifles make candles of it. Except in breeding time 
it is always at fea ; and is feen all over the vaft 
Atlantic ocean, at the greateft diftance from land ; 
Sib. hift. Fife 48. 
Prccellaria. Brijfon av. VI. 140. 
Tab. 13. Fig. 1. 
Procellaria pelagica. Lin. fyft. 131. 
Clufti exot. 368. 
Brunnich ornith. Boreal. 29. 
it prefages bad weather, and cautions the feamen 
of the approach of a tempeft, by coliedfing under 
the ftern of the ftiips : it braves the utmoft fury 
of the ftorm, fometimes fkimming with incredible 
velocity along the hollows of the waves, fome¬ 
times on the fummits : Clufius makes it the Camil¬ 
la of the fea. 
Vel mare per medium fludtu fulpenla tumenti 
Ferret iter, celeres nec tingeret oequore plantas. 
Thefe birds are the Cypfelli of Pliny , which he 
places among the Apodes of Ariftotle 5 not be- 
caufe they wanted feet, but were K caovofa, or had 
ufelefs 
