( 39 ) 

 their necks in iearch of provifion for their 

 children and families : whereas in feveral 

 ' parts mnltitudes are reduced to the necefTity 

 of watching the recefs of the tides to pxk 

 up a fcanty pittance of Ihell fiih, their daily 

 fuftenance at certain feafons ; deftitute of 

 rneal to give confiftence to their water, or 

 a little milk for their perifliing babes ! 



Ijqho.&f. Br. Zool. 411. iv. tab. 20. 



^T^HIS fpecies, and the black-bill'd auk, 

 ^ No. 175, appear in the Firth oi Forth, 



in Ocioher, in flocks innumerable, . purfuing 

 the fprats. Both kinds are called there 

 Morots. 



Br. Zool. II. 412. iv. /<?i. 20. 



Er. Calltag. Tylte in the Orbiies. 



DIVER. 



181 Northern Br. Zool. 11. 413. 



Er. Bur-bhuachailL, 



--"T^HE herdlmen of the fea, for the cre- 

 -■' dulous believe that it never quits that 

 ehment. 



182 Imber, 



