3 ]2 OF BIRDS. 



liberty, giving many fevere flrokcs with its {harp beak and claws. 

 When it is once on the wing, it fkims with great celerity on the 

 f urface of the water. It puts itfelf to little trouble in providing 

 a neft to breed in, being content with any fubterrene cavity, but 

 feems bed pleafed with a rabbit-burrough, turning the poor 

 animal out of its own tenement by force, if -not deferted before 

 its arrival. The legs are larger than thofe of a duck, of a red- 

 diili colour. It lays only one at a time, and fo on to the fifth. 

 They leave us in Anguft, and return in the beginning or middle 

 of May. Such of the young as are not able to fly, they leave be- 

 hind to fliift for themfelves. 



7. The Guillimet (g) breeds annually on the fleep cliffs of the 

 iiland of Farn. It meafures between the tips of the wings, ex- 

 tended, thirty inches. The beak is near three inches long, 

 black, ftraight, and fharp at the point, with a fmall denticle near 

 it, hanging over the under chap, when the mouth is Ihut. The 

 whole upper plumage is a cinereous-black, the under one white. 

 It lavs very large eggs, above three inches long, iharp at one 

 end, and blunt at the other, of a bluim-green, fome of them, 

 ftreaked with black. 



8. The Razor-Bill (h)> is another of the .F^nz-ifland vifitants in 

 the fummer. It is lefs than the common duck ; between the 



(f) GUILLIMET. SEA-HEN. Northumbr. Dunelm. SCOUT. Ebarac. GUILLIM. Cumbr. 

 Corwl. 



(h) Alca. Worm. Mus. p. 363. #?# Orn. p. 243. t. 64. f. i. t. 65. f. 2. Alcahokri. 

 Raj. Av. p. 119. jflb.Orn. 3. p. 90. t. 95. Alca roftri fulcis quatuor; linea utrinque 

 alba a roftro ad oculos. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 43. n. 120. The AUK. Nortlmmbr, Dunelm. 

 Ebarac. RAZOR-BILL. Dtrcejlr. MURRE. Carnub. 



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