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gun would be useless, I got into the boat again and 

 landed a little further down, where the boatmen said 

 I could climb up the mountain side and get above 

 them ; this I managed to do, but before I got to a 

 place where I could shoot from I had to descend a 

 very steep bit of heather. At last I arrived at a sort 

 of precipice, but the heather gave me good standing 

 ground ; the birds were directly below me, and 

 selecting the best specimen I shot her. 



Then came the difficulty of procuring the young. 

 Luckily, one of the boatmen was an excellent crags- 

 man, and, letting him down with a rope round his 

 waist, he managed to secure them ; but it was an 

 awfully nasty place, and one that I myself would not 

 have ventured in for a small fortune. 



CASE 42. 



THE RAZOR BILL. 



Oraei'-^ Pygopodes. Family, AlcidcE. 



This species so closely resembles the now extinct 

 Great Auk that it would be hard, were it not for the 

 difference in size — the latter being more than half as 

 big again — to distinguish them. Like the Puffins 

 and Guillemots, the Razor Bill goes out to sea in 

 the winter months, coming in to our coastal British 

 waters in the spring months of the year for breeding 

 purposes. 



