BRITISH BIRDS. 



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The female lays only one egg, which is large in 

 proportion to her size, being about three inches in 

 length: they are not all alike; those of one bird 

 being of a whitish ground, and of another, perhaps, 

 pale blue, or pale sea-green, and all of them are 

 curiously and irregularly spotted and streaked 

 with black. 



These birds associate with and breed in the same 

 places as the Razor-bill : they are, in many places, 

 indiscriminately called Willocks. 



