510 - ' RAZOR-BILL, AND BLACK-BILLED AUK. 



fecondaries tipt with white: bread and belly white: Ifegs black.. 

 Weight near twenty-three ounces. Length eigliteen inches^ Ex- 

 tent twenty-feven. " ^ 

 PiACE. Inhabits the north of Europe, Iceland^,. Greenland, and the coaft of 

 Labrador*. Extends in Europe, along the White fea, into the /irific 

 Jftatic fhores ; and from thence to Kamtjchatka and the gulph of 

 , Ochotjk, wherever there are lofty rocics f. It is the only one of this 

 fpecies which reaches the inland Baltic. It is found there on the 

 Carls-Ozar ifles,. r^ear Gothland, and the ifle of Bondon off Angerraan- 

 land. 



426. BtACK-BiL- Br.ZooI.W. N°23i. — Alca Pica, Lin.SyJi. 210. — Latham, \\\. 



J-BD* AJca-Unifuleata, Brunnich, N" lol.—MulUr, N* 138. 



A With a black bill,, marked with- one furrow:- whole Upper fids 

 * of the body black ; the under, from chin to tail, white. 

 Weight only eighteen ounces. Length fifteen inches and a half. 

 Extent twenty-five^ 

 Ps-aCe. Inhabits the north of Europe, and the fame countries with the 



former. It extends farther fouth than any of the genus ; being found 

 on the coaftsof Candia, the antient Crete-, where it is called Vutha- 

 maria, and Calicatczu J. In Greenland neither of them frequent the 

 bays till the intenfe cold fets in j. but live in the fea, rcforting,. in the 



* Doftor Pallas ; to whom it was fent bjr a Mora'waw miffionary. 



f In the Britifi Zoology, ii. N° 230, I made matter of wonder, the manner in whick 

 this bird placed its egg on the naked rock, with fo fecure a balance that it would not 

 roll off. Mr. Aikiti referred me to the following paiTage in Harvey de Generations 

 Anim. which mcft clearly explains the caufe : " In the fame ifland" (the Bafi)', fays 

 he, " una mihi montlratur avis, quje ovum duntaxat fingulare, five unlcum, parit, 

 " idemque fuper cujufdam lapidis acuti faftigium coUocat (nullo nido, aut conquifita 

 " ftrue fuppofita), idque tam firmiter, ut mater abire & redire, (alvo ovo, poffit. Hoc 

 "' autem fi quis loco dimoveat, nulla arte poftea ftabiliri poteft; quin inde devolutum 

 " prsEceps in mare ruat. Locus nempe (ut dixi)caeniento albo incruftatar; ovuraquej 

 " cum nafcitur, lenta & vifcofa madet humiditate, qua cito concrefcente, tanquam 

 "_/«rrara;«^quodam fabftrato faxo agglutinatura." 

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