. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . d by the inhabitants ofthe north, as a sovereign remedy in many complaints, both external andinternal. The flesh is also considered by ihem as a delicacy, and the birdis therefore in great request at St Kilda. When a whale is taken, thesebirds will, in defiance of all endeavors, light upon it, and pick out largelumps of fat, even while it is alive. Procellaria g-lacialis, Lin. The genus Procellaria has the bill as long as, or longerthan the head, very h
. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . d by the inhabitants ofthe north, as a sovereign remedy in many complaints, both external andinternal. The flesh is also considered by ihem as a delicacy, and the birdis therefore in great request at St Kilda. When a whale is taken, thesebirds will, in defiance of all endeavors, light upon it, and pick out largelumps of fat, even while it is alive. Procellaria g-lacialis, Lin. The genus Procellaria has the bill as long as, or longerthan the head, very hard, edged, depressed, and dilated at the base; the tip compressed,and arched, both mandibles channelled, and abruptly inflected towards the extremity ;nostrils prominent at the surface of the bill, united, and concealed in a tube which eitherforms a single opening, or exhibits two distinct openings ; legs middle sized, often long,slender; the tarsi compressed ; the tliree front toes entirely webbed and long, and thehinder represented by a pointed claw; wings long. 83 C58 AVES—MANKS PUFFIN. .PETREL. THE SHEARWATER, OR MANKS PUFFIN,^. As it is called by Willoughby, is something smaller than the head and all the upper part of the body are of a sooty blackness; andthe under part, and inner coverts of the wings, white. These birds arefound in the Isle of Man, and the Scilly isles. In February, they take ashort possession of the rabbit burrows, and then disappear till April; theylay one egg, and in a short time the young are fit to be taken. They arethen salted and barrelled. During the day, they keep at sea, fishing, andtowards evening return to their young, whom they feed, by discharging thecontents of the stomach into their mouths. THE STORMY PETREL^
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