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;74Razor.bili ^^- "^ool \\. 403, iv. iah, i<>. 



Er. Coltraiche, . 



17S Black- Br, ZooL 11. 404. 



75 islac 



Billed. 



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176 Puffin ^^' ^°°^' ^^' 4^5* 



Er,Facbach, Tom-noddy in the Oz-^^/V;. 



177 Little. ^^' ^°^^' ^^' 4°^* ^^* ^^^' ^9* 



GUILLEMOT. 



i78Guillemot Sr,ZooLll. 4.10. 



Er. Gearadb-breac, Eun-duhh-ci -chrulain, 



THESE birds, and the razor-bills, arc 

 taken in great numbers in the more 

 diftant rocks of the Hebrides^ for fake of 

 their feathers, which are fold for fix or (tvcn 

 Ihillings per ftonc : their eggs are alfo a great 

 article of food, attained with vaft hazard, 

 cither by climbing, or by being fufpended 

 by a rope from above, at a flupendous 

 height over a raging fea. This is a method 

 common to molt of the maritime northern 

 nations : Pontoppidan^ in his hiftory of 

 'Noruoay^ and Claujon^ in his account of 

 the fame country, give amazing accounts 

 of the manner in which the inhabitants 

 obtain their ovarious food. In like way 

 the natives of the Hebrides annually rifque 



their 



