WATER BIRDS. 



Great Auk, or Northern Penguin. 



Razorbill. 



The Great Auk or Northern Penguin, inhabits the regions of eternal cold. It is here found upon floating ice- 

 masses, far from land, to which it resorts only in June and July, its breeding season. Its wings are but four 

 inches long, its body, three feet. The Auk is an unequalled diver, and feeds chiefly on marine plants. They 

 arc found, in great numbers in the Teroe Isles, Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland. 



The Razorbill is one of the aquatic Auks, and like the Great Auk, is numerous in the higher latitudes. 

 This species, however, abounds also on the cliffs of England. There it breeds on the ledges and steep rocks, 

 and is quite a business with the people in the vicinity to take their eggs, which are reckoned a delicacy. 



The natural and habitual haunts of the Little Auk seem to be the highest northern latitudes, and their ap- 

 pearance even in any of the temperate latitudes is doubtless from their being driven thither by storm and 

 exhaustion. Their principal food is marine animals, which are found in the fissures of the ice, when broken 

 up by storms. 



The Puffin, or Coulterneb inhabits the cold regions of the entire north. Their nest is merely a deep ex- 

 cavation in the earth, for which they often substitute a rabbit's deserted burrow. Their food is small fishes, 

 crabs, shrimps and sea-weeds. They both walk and fly with difficulty. 



Little Auk. 



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