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the body, wings, and tail, is black; the reft white; and there is 

 a large oval fpot of the laft, occupying moll of the fpace between 

 the bill and eye : the fecond quills are tipped with white, 

 forming an oblong ftripe on the wings ; which are fo fmall as to 

 be ulelefs for flight, being little more than four inches in 

 length to the firft joint: legs black. 



In Mr. Tunji all's Mufeum is one of thefe with only two or three 

 furrows on the bill, and the oval fpace between the bill and eye 

 fpeckled black and white. This is probably a young bird. 

 Pi ace and This bird is fometimes feen on the ifle of St. Kilda, appear- 



ing there the beginning of May, and retiring in June. It lays 

 one large egg, clofe to xhtfea mark, fix inches long, white, irre- 

 gularly marked with purplifti lines, and blotched at the larger 

 end with black or ferruginous fpots ; and it is faid, that if the egg 

 be taken away the bird will not lay a fecond. It hatches late, as 

 the young in Auguft are only covered with grey down. It is 

 feldom to be met with beyond foundings. Sometimes frequents 

 the coafts of Norway, the Ferroe IJles, Iceland, Greenland, and 

 Newfoundland*. Feeds much on the lump-Jifi, father-lajher, and 

 other fifh of that fize. The young birds eat roje-root f, and other 

 plants. The old ones are very rarely feen on ftiore, though the 

 young are not unfrequently met with : is a very ftiy bird ; walks 

 ill, but dives well, and is taken in the manner ufed for the Razor- 

 bill and Puffin. Thefkin between thejaws is blown into a bladder, 

 and ufed for the darts of the Greenlanders, as is alfo that of fome 

 other birds J. The fkin of the body fuppofed to be ufed by the 

 Ejhmaux Indians for garments |j. 



* Ara.ZooL — Br.Zool. f Rhodiola rofea. Liu. 



X Faun. Groenl. \\ Aid. Zool. 



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