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the end of darts, and thefe darts are often ufed: 
to kill the Fulmar. 
There is another Petrel, called the Storm Finch, 
er Stormy Petre]. It is about the fize of a Swal- 
low, but its wings are much longer. “The whole 
bird.is black, except neat the tail, and there the’ 
feathers are white. It can fpout oil like the Ful- 
mar. It is faid,. that the people in the Ferro 
iflands, which lie in the northern ocean, about two 
hundred miles from Scotland, draw’ a piece of 
cotton wick through the bird, and light it, and 
that then it ferves for a lamp or a candle; becaufe 
the flame is fed by the oil which is in its body. 
' The Storm Finches are always feen at fea, exe 
éept whilft they are breeding. When a ftorm is 
coming, they fly in numbers after the fhips, and 
then the failors know that they are to expect bad 
weather. They fly in this manner in the moft- 
dreadful ftorms, fometimes fkimming along the 
hollows of the waves, fometimes on their fummits, - 
and they are never feen to-reft upon the furface 
ofthe fea. The Stormy Petrels have been ob- 
-ferved.in the white fea, which bounds a part of 
Ruffia. Theyare excellent divers, and ftay under’ 
water along time without rifing. - | 
The Shear Water is another Petrel : it is about 
as large as a Gull, and is found in the-Calf of © 
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