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their necks in fearch of provifion for their 

 children and families : whereas in feveral 

 parts multitudes are reduced to the necefTity 

 of watching the recefs of the tides to pxk 

 up a fcanty pittance of fhell fifh, their daily 

 fuftenance at certain feafons ; deftitute of 

 rneal to give confiftcnce to their water, or 

 a little milk for their perifliing babes 1 



t 



,1^9 Leffer, Br. ZoqL 411. iv. tab. 20. 



'THHIS fpecies, and the black-bilFd auk, 



•^ No. 175, appear in the Firth oi Forth^ 



in Otioher^ in flocks innumerable, purfuing, 



the fprats. Both kinds are called ther^ 



Morots, 



^80 Black. Br. Zodl II. 412. iv. tab, 20. 



' Er. Calltag. Tylle in the Orbiies. 



DIVER. 



iSi Nojthern Br. Zool. II. 413. 



Er. Bur-bhuachaHl. 



-^pHE herdfmen of the fea, for the ere- 

 '*' dulous believe that it never quits that 

 ehment. 



1-82 Imbei*. 



