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RAZOR-BILL. 
RAZOR-BILL AUK. BLACK-BILLED AUK. AUK. MURRE. 
FALK. MaRROT. SKORT. 
Aica torda, PENNANT. MonraGu. BEWICK. 
on pen, Montacu. Berwick. 
ACO... .cerceceee 2 Torda—Quere, a corruption from Tarda—siow. 
Tus bird is plentiful on the shores of the islands in the 
Arctic seas of Europe, Asia, and America, from Canada, 
Labrador, and Greenland, to Iceland, Norway, and Kamts- 
chatka. It is seen also in Denmark, Holstein, Prussia, France, 
and Spain, and has occurred on the northern coast of Africa, 
namely, at Tangiers. In America a few occasionally go as 
far south as New York. 
The Razor-bill breeds in Yorkshire, at Flamborough Head, 
the well-known promontory near Burlington; also on the 
Fern Islands. It occurs occasionally at Yarmouth, Norfolk, 
and along the coast, the young birds more commonly, and 
the old ones less so at all times of the year except in 
summer. 
This species has occurred in Oxfordshire—for this I have 
the authority of the Hon. T. L. Powys. In Cornwall it is 
not uncommon near Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool Bay, and Fal- 
mouth. One found dead by Mr. Cocks on the 3rd. of January, 
1849. A young bird was shot there by Mr. May, January 
9th., 1849. In Hampshire it has occurred at the Isle of 
Wight. 
In February and March, 1853, the beach about Morfa, 
Bychaw, and Harlech, in North Wales, was strewed with 
dead birds of this kind. : 
It is plentiful in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, also in 
Scotland, in Sutherlandshire, about Handa and other parts. 
Many migrate southwards in the winter from the more 
