. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. 'I ^v PETREL. This fpecies of Gull was difcovcred by Mr, Htitchins, in Hud- Jon s Bay. Its bill is black, and three inches long: head, neck, breaft, and belly, of an uniform brown : primaries black -, coverts and fcapulars brown, marked with white : tail black, fpecklcd and tipt with white. Length twenty-three inches j extent four (ect and a halfj weight two pounds and a half. Perhaps a young Skua Gull: tlie natives call it Keaflj. To the genus of Pttrel may be added the following fpecies. Latham, vi. 396.âQucbrantahucflbs, Bou
. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. 'I ^v PETREL. This fpecies of Gull was difcovcred by Mr, Htitchins, in Hud- Jon s Bay. Its bill is black, and three inches long: head, neck, breaft, and belly, of an uniform brown : primaries black -, coverts and fcapulars brown, marked with white : tail black, fpecklcd and tipt with white. Length twenty-three inches j extent four (ect and a halfj weight two pounds and a half. Perhaps a young Skua Gull: tlie natives call it Keaflj. To the genus of Pttrel may be added the following fpecies. Latham, vi. 396.âQucbrantahucflbs, Boug, roj. 63.âCoe/('/ 20^,âFor- yier't f^oy. 516.âDe BuJ'on, ix. 519. P. With a very ftrong bill, four inches and a half long, much hooked at the end, and of a fine yellow, like that of poliflied box; the tube reaches to the commencement of the hook. At the corners of the mouth is a naked yellow (kin : the crown is dufky : hind part of the neck and back light brown, mottled with dirty white: wings, fcapulars, and tail, an uniform dufky brown: fore part of the neck, bread, and belly, white: legs fliort, ftrong, and of a greyiili yellow: the fpur very ftrong and fharp. Lengtii forty inches; extent of wings feven feet: equal in body to a goofe. Thefe birds are very common off the weftern coaft of North Jmerica^ and in the fca between that continent and Kamtjchatka, and quite covei" t,he rocks of the intervening chain of ifles with their numbcis. ^teller faw multitudes feeding on a dead whale, two hundred verfts from land. They fpread over die ocean like the little fpecies of Petrel, and like it is the harbinger of ftorms. Sailors diflike their appearance, and call them Mother Gary's Geeje, as they do the Icfftr kind her Chickens. Mo- ther Gary was probably a witch, proteftrcfs of thefe ominous birds: for Tcaiufn as well as landmen had dieir belief in the iceirt* lifters, who Hand 71 K2ASH, 5J4. OIANT. PLACE. im. *' m. M â â 'â n I. Please note that these images a
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