316 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



band of white across the wings ; chin and throat dark 

 brown ; breast and all under-parts snowy white. 

 Legs, toes, and webs brownish-black ; claws black. 



Female similar. 



Situation and Locality. In crevices, crannies, 

 under crags, and on ledges of high maritime cliffs ; 

 pretty generally round our coasts. One observer 

 says that he has found its egg in a Puffin burrow, 

 and another in a Cormorant's nest at the Fame 

 Islands. The latter is a somewhat remarkable 



RAZORBILLS AT HOME. 



circumstance, inasmuch as the Cormorants exclu- 

 sively occupy a rock there, and I have never once 

 seen a Razorbill breeding on the Northumbrian coast. 

 Our full-page illustration is from a photograph taken 

 on Ailsa Craig, where great numbers breed. 



Materials. None ; the egg, when laid on bare, 

 flat rock, is often swept off by a gust of wind. 



Egg. One ; varying from white to buffy-white, 

 or even reddish-brown, spotted and blotched with 

 large, bold, and numerous markings of greyish, 

 chestnut, reddish and blackish brown. Not so 

 pointed as that of the Guillemot, and interior of 

 shell greenish instead of yellowish-white, which is 



