7C Blac 

 billed. 



( 38 ) 



Br. ZjoI. II. 403, iv. tab. 19. 

 Er. Coltrakke. 



Br, Zool II. 404. 



Br. Zool. II. 40;. 



Er. Fachach. Tom-noddy in the Orknks 



Br. Zool. II. 406. iv. tab. 19. 



GUILLEMOT. 



Br. Zool. II. 410. 



£r. Gearadb-breac, Eiin-dubh -a -chrulain. 



THESE birds, and the razor-bills, are 

 taken in great numbers in the more 

 diftant rocks of the Hebrides, for fake of 

 their feathers, which are fold for fix or fevcn 

 Ihillings per Hone : their eggs are alfo a great 

 article of food, attained with vafl hazard, 

 either by climbing, or by being fufpended 

 by a rope from above, at a flupendous 

 height over a raging fea. This is a method 

 common to moll of the maritime northern 

 cations : Pontoppidan, in his hiftory of 

 Norway., and Claujon, in his account of 

 the fame country, give amazing accounts 

 of the manner in which the inhabitants 

 obtain their ovarious food. In like way 

 the natives of the Hebrides annually rifquc 



their 



