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The eggs of the Razorbill are generally regular ovals; occasionally 

 specimens may be found with the two ends of much the same size. 

 The shell is coarse, rather rough to the touch, and without any gloss. 

 The ground-colour varies very greatly : white, pale blue, pink, 

 stone-colour, yellow and reddish brown being the more prevalent 

 tints. The markings vary from small specks to huge blotches, and 

 are dark reddish brown, approaching, in many cases, to black. 

 Some examples are marked entirely with specks ; others with 

 blotches, which have a tendency to be confluent round the larger 

 end, and between these two types every variation may be found. The 

 dimensions range from 2-7 to 31 in length, and from 1-72 to 1-95 iu 

 breadth. Three abnormally large eggs from Bempton, however, 

 measure from 3"6 to 3'75 in length, and from 2*15 to 2-2 in breadth. 



1. 



2. 



1. 



1. 



2. 



6. 



8. 



4. 

 15. 



4. 

 36. 



5. 

 3. 



1. 



1. 



1.".. 

 1. 

 4. 



2d. 

 2, 



1. 

 24. 



10. 

 1. 



America. 



N. America {HensJirni' Coll.). 



"Whalefish Island, N.W. America. 



Labrador. 



Greenland, .Tune. 



Greenland, July. 



Salteelsland.sCo. Wexford, 28thMay, 



Hebrides (F. Walker: HanjittColl.). 



St. Kilda, June {C. Di.von). 



Faroe Islands {Haryitt Coll.). 



Faroe Islands {H. C. Miiller : Har- 



(jitt Coll.). 

 Shetland (S. Dnnn: Bargitt Coll.). 

 Stromness, Orkneys {R. Dunn: Har- 



gitt Coll.). 

 Scotland (Hnrgitt Coll.). 

 Sutberland,«bire (./. A. Harvie- 



Brotm: Hnrgitt Coll.). 

 Deebank, Aberdeen (Haigitt Cull.). 

 Great Britain. 

 Farn Islands (H. Seel/olnn). 

 Bempton, Yorkshire (H. S.). 

 Flamborough Head {Hargitt Coll.). 

 Tenbv, Wales. 



St. Davids, Wales, 28th May. 

 Lundy Island, Bristol Channel. 

 Lundy Island {CAwbonmer: Hargitt 



Coll.). 

 Stappen, Norway, 17th June (H. 



Seebohm). 

 Finland {MacGallen). 



J. Walter, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Dr. Eobertson [P.]. 

 Sir Henry Peek [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Col. H. W. Feilden [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 J. Walter, Esq. [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Genus ALLE, Linh. 

 Alle alle, Linn. 



Alca alle, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. vc. fig. 1, a-c (1845-.')4) ; 



Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 380, pi. 45 (1885) ; id. Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 95, pi. 26. fig. 3 (1896). 

 Mergulus &Ae, Baedeker, Eier Eur. FoV/. tab. 70. fig. 2 (1855-63) : Dresser, 



Birds Eur. viii. p. 591 (1877). 



