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OF BIRDS. 2B 
They feed on fith, and on the delat carcales of 
whales and birds. 
‘The Pintado Petrels fly in flocks : ; feldom very 
: hich, but generally fkimming the furface of the 
fea. They appear in fuch numbers, that feven 
hundred have been taken ina night. The failors 
often catch them with a tarred ftring, or r with a 
piece of lard, and a fifhing rod. 
There is a kind of Petrel which og few 
the reft, becaufe each noftril is a diftin® fhort 
tube. Thefe Petrels were found in New Zealand, : 
in large numbers ; fome were flying, fome were 
in holes in the ground, clofe to one another, or 
under the roots of trees, and in the crevices of 
rocks. They made a noife like the croaking of - 
| frogs, and flew very much at night, as bats do. ? 
They feem very large, becaufe they have a great 
quantity of feathers, and two feathers inftead of 
one comes from every root; and they lie. one. 
within another, and make a very warm covering, ., : 
Bs. - Genus 
