AUK. 319 



Alca torda, Lin. Syft. 1. p. 210. I. — Faun. Suec. N° i^g.—Scop. Ann. i. 5. 



N 8 94.— Brun. N° 100.— Mulkr, p. 16. "•" RAZOR-BILL. 



Le Pingoin, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 89. 2. pi. 8. fig. I. — Buf. Oif. ix. p. 390. 



pi. 27. — PL Enl. 1003. 1004. 

 Razor-bill, Auk, or Murre, Rail Syn. p. 119. A* I- — Will. Orn. p. 323. 



pi. 64 — Albin, 3. pi. 95. — Edw. pi. 358. fig. 2. — Br. Zoo!, ii- 



N° 230. pi. Zi.—Ara. Zool. N° 425. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH eighteen inches: breadth twenty-feven. Bill two Description. 



inches long, black, curved at the point; the feathers coming 

 greatly forwards at the bafe, and crofted with four tranfverfe grooves, 

 one of which is white, forming an oblique band on both mandi- 

 bles : infide of the mouth yellow : from the bafe of the forehead 

 to the eye a narrow line of white : the reft of the head, chinj 

 throat, back part of the neck, back, wings, and tail, black : un- 

 der parts from the breaft white : the greater wing coverts tipped 

 with white, forming a band on the wings : legs black. 



Thefe birds, like the Auk, recognife their old breeding-places Place and 

 before they fettle thereon to breed : appear firft the beginning of 

 February, but do not fettle on their breeding-places with an in- 

 tent to lay till the beginning of May, when they are met with 

 on moft of the high craggy coafts of England; where our mer- 

 cilefs fhooters go to try the ufe of the gun, too frequently leaving 

 many hundreds of thefe and 'the Guillemots, after being maimed, 

 to die by flow degrees at the foot of the rocks; for they are fo 

 ftupid as to fuffer themfelves to be fhot at one after another. 

 They are called by fome, Parrot-billed Willoeks ; and lay one egg 

 en the bare rock, which they fo fix by cement* to the furface 5 



* See Arii. Zool- p. 510^ 



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Manners. 



