2~o AUK. 



that it reds fecure from rolling off, yet if difturbed by human 

 hand can never be replaced with certainty : if this be taken away 

 it will lay another, and even a third, fhould the fecond be alfo 

 taken. The colour of the egg is dufky white, marked with many 

 irregular blackifli fpots. 



Thefe eggs the natives are fond of, and run the greateft rifk 

 in procuring them, being lowered from above by ropes. Some- 

 times two perfons, having a rope tied to each of their middles, 

 the one takes faft hold, while the other lowers himfelf as conve- 

 nience ferves ; but the weight of the lower one fometimes exceed- 

 ing the uncertain hold of his companion, they both fall, and pe- 

 rifh together. 



We find thefe birds in the north of Europe, alfo in Iceland, 

 Greenland, and on the coaft of Labrador.. In Europe they extend 

 along the White Sea into the Artlic Jfiatic mores, and from 

 thence to Kamtjchatka and the gulph of Ochotka. Is the only one 

 which reaches the inland Baltic ; being found there on the Carls- 

 Ozar JJles, near Gothland, and the ifle of Bondon off Angermania* '. 



g # Alca Pica, Lin. Syfl. i. p. zio. N° 2. — Faun. Groenl. N° 51. 



4- BLACK-BIL- Alca unifulcata, Brun. N° 102.— Mailer, N° 138. 



LED A. Le petit Pingoin, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 92. t. 8. fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. ix. p. 396. 



Mergus Bellonii, Utamania difta, Rait Sjn. p. 119. 2. — Will. Orn, p. 324. 



pi 64. 

 Black-billed Auk, Br. Zool. ii. N" 231.— Ara. Zool. N° 426. 

 Br. Muf. Leu. Muf. 



Description, HP H I S weighs eighteen ounces: is in length fifteen inches : 

 breadth twenty-four. The bill is not above half the breadth 



* See Hijl. Kamtfcb. p. 153. — Ara. Zool. 



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