460 Mr. Selby on the Birds of the Farn Islands, 



Razor bill Auk. Lath. Syn. 5. 319. British Zool. 2. No. 240. 



t. 82. 



A few of this species annually breed in company with the 

 Guillemots. The eggs of both are so much alike in shape, as to 

 make it very difficult to distinguish them, and they are subject to 

 the same variation in colour and markings. The old birds lose 

 the nuptial plumage about the same time as the Guillemot, and 

 in their winter dress may be recognized as the Alca Pica and 

 A. minor of authors. 



Genus Mormon. Illig. 

 Mormon fratercula. Temm. Man. d'ornith. 2. 933. 

 Alca Arctica. Linn. 1. 211. 4. Gmel. 1. 549. Lath. 2. 792. 

 Fratercula, Briss. 6. 81. 

 Le Macareux. Buff. ois. 9. 358. t. 26. 

 Puffin. Lath. Syn. 5. 314. 3. British Zool. 2. No. 232. &c. 



This species resorts to the Walmseys, two small Islands which 

 have a covering of vegetable mould, in which they burrow and 

 rear their young. The hole is generally about three feet in length, 

 and runs in a horizontal direction. They lay but one egg^ of an 

 oval form, and yellowish white colour, which they sit upon for a 

 month. The young, till fledged, are covered with a long and fine 

 down, of a sooty or brownish black, which gives them a grotesque 

 appearance. The bill in the young bird is but imperfectly deve- 

 loped, being slender and narrow, of a black colour, and scarcely 

 shewing the commencement of the furrows which distinguish the 

 high compressed bill of the adults. 



Fam. Pelicanid^e. Leach. 

 Genus Carbo. Meyer. 

 Cdrho Cormoranus. Meyer Tasschenb. D. 

 Phalacrocorax. Briss. 1. 511. 

 Pelecanus Carbo, Linn. 1.216. 3. Gmel 1. 673. Lath. 2. 88. 



sp. 14. 

 Le Cormoran. Buff. ois. 8. 310. 26. 



The Cormorant. Lath. Syn. 6. 593. 13. British Zool. 2. No. 

 291, &c. 



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