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of the Razor-bill's, and very little curved, perfectly fmooth 

 throughout the whole of its furface, except a flight indentation at 

 the bafe : infide of the mouth pale flefh-colour : the top of the 

 head, taking in the eyes, part of the neck, the back, wings, "and 

 tail, are black ; on the fides of the neck the black comes forward 

 fo as almoft to meet on the fore part: the fides of the. head, 

 throat, fore part of the neck, and all beneath, white : from behind 

 the eye a dufky black mark tending to the hind head, as in the 

 lejfer Guillemot; the white on the fides of the head lefs pure than 

 on the under parts : all the fecond quills are tipped with whiter 

 and the primaries are of a deeper black than the others : legs 

 brownifh black*. 



This, from its external marks, fhould appear to be a different 

 fpecies from the Razor-bill, but we are pretty certain it is no 

 other than the young of that bird. Mr. Pennant obferves, that ic 

 is fometimes found on our coafts ; but it is in the winter feafon 

 only, when the common fort has quitted them. 



We have received the above, along with another, in a farther 

 advanced ftate, killed on the coaft of Devon/hire the middle of 

 December 1783 f ; this laft was one inch longer, and weighed 

 nineteen ounces : it had the plumage exactly marked as in the 

 above-defcribed, except that the ufual white trace betweeen the 

 bill and eye was vifible, but of a greyifh colour : the bill had 

 the four furrows fcarcely complete, but the ftreak acrofs the man- , 

 dibles was vifible, and of a dirty yellow inftead of a pure white : 

 the legs in both brown black. 



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. * Linnaus fays the legs are red, but no other author records it. 

 \ We owe thefe to the kindnefs of M. Martin, efquire, of Teingn.mh. 



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