PETRELS. 115 



Down, sixteen miles inland. One in Mr. Pike's col- 

 lection was found dead on Rockley Railway Bridge 

 in the autumn of 1876. In January 1882 one 

 was obtained in Clenston Wood, Whatcombe, and 

 another was found about the same date at Char- 

 mouth. 



ORDER PYGOPODES. 



FAM. ALCID^E. 







RAZOR-BILL. Alca torda, L. 



Tarrell, iv. p. 55; Harting, p. 70; Ih'ess&r, viii. p. 557; 

 Seebohm, iii. p. 375 ; Ibis List, p. 205 ; Pulteney's List, 

 p. 17. 



During the breeding season the Razor-Bill fre- 

 quents our coast in great numbers ; at other times 

 of the year it remains some distance out at sea. It 

 occasionally suffers great privations through stormy 

 weather, and the disturbed state of the sea-bed, by 

 which the fish on which it feeds are either driven 

 away or obscured from view. In February 1872 the 

 Chesil Bank was strewn with their dead bodies. 

 The late Mr. Thompson counted forty-one lying 

 dead on Preston Beach, and not a Guillemot (whose 

 habits are similar) was among them. The following 

 winter and that of 1881-82 were equally disastrous ; 

 hundreds were then cast ashore on all parts of the 

 coast. The Alca pica of Pulteney, believed by him 

 to be distinct, is the young of the present species. 



