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AUK. 



the head white : throat, neck, and all the upper parts of the 

 body, wings, and tail, black : breaft and under parts white : legs 

 orange. 



The other fex has the bill more {lender : the crown of the 

 head brown black : fides of the head white, paffing backwards 

 almoft to the nape : thighs afh-coloured : the reft as in the laft- 

 defcribed. 

 Place. This was met with at Bird IJland, between Afia and America. 



In the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks. 



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Labrador Auk, Aril. Zool. N° 428. 



LABRADOR A. Br. Muf. 



Description C I Z E of the Puffin : length near twelve inches. The bill near 

 an inch and a quarter in length, much carinated at top, a little 

 convex, but more narrow than in any of the Auk genus ; the up- 

 per mandible is dufky red ; the lower whitilh, marked with a 

 black fpot, and has an angle as in the Gull : place of the noftrils 

 covered with a dufky fkin ; the noftrils themfelves a flit near 

 the edge : all the upper parts of the plumage are black : the 

 fides of the head dufky white : throat dufky : the under parts 

 white : wings and tail dufky j the laft very fhort : legs red. 

 Piace. A fpecimen of this is in the Britijh Mufeum, fuppofed to come 



from the coaft of Labrador. 



Aka 



