GREAT AUK, AND RAZOR-BILL. * 509, 



XLIX, A U IC Gen.. Birds, LXXXIIL 



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Br. Zoo!, ii. N° 220. — Ediv. N° 147. — Latham, iii. >-. 



^ ^' 424. Gruat. 



Alca Impennis, Faun. Suec. N° 140. — Bninnich, N" 105. — Mulkr, N" 139.— 



Lev. Mus^ 



A With a ftrong bill, bending at the end; black, and furrowed 

 • tranfverfely : between that and the eyes, a bean-fhaped white 

 fpot : above, the whole plunnage is of a glofly black ; the fecondaries 

 alone tipt with white : breaft and belly white : wings very fhort, 

 and ufelefs for flight, covered with very Iliort feathers,: legs black. 

 To the end of the toes, three feet. 



Inhabits (but not very frequently, the coafts o? Norway) the Feroe Flag*. 



iflands (in a certain number of years, 6'/. Kilda) Iceland, Greenland, 

 and Newfomidland. It lives chiefly on the fea ; but never wanders 

 beyond the foundings. Feeds much on the Lump-fijh, Br. Zool. ii. 

 N° 57. and Father Lajher, Br. Zool. iii. N° 99. and othei- filh of 

 that fize. Builds on rocks remote from fhore. Lays one egg, 

 fix inches long, irregularly marked with purplifh lines on a white 

 ground, or blotched near the thicker end with black or ferruginous 

 fpots. Hatches late. The young, in Auguji, are only covered with 

 grey down. Their food, at that period, is vegetable, the Rhodiola 

 Rojea, and other plants, having been found in their ftomachs. The 

 Greenlanders ufe the gullet as a bladder to fupport their darts * : and 

 I think I have feen fome habits of the EJkimaux made of the flcins. ' 



Br. Zool. Ji. N° 230.— Le Pingoin, PI. Enl. 1004, 1005. — Latham, iii. ^jj. Razor-eilj,» 



Alca Torda, Faun. Suec. N" 139. — Lev. Mus, — Bl. Mus. 



* With a white line from the bill to the eyes: bill thick, bent at 

 ■^*'' the end, crofled with tranfverfe groves; the largefl white, and 

 pafling over each mandible : head, back, wings, and tail black : 



* Faun. Groenl. p. Sz. . , 



9 fecondaries 



