AUK. 



nor can the down be feparated from the fkin, fo as to become ufe- 

 ful ; but the eggs are thought very good. 



3*$ 



Alca pfittacula, Pall. Spic. v. p. 13. pi. 2. 5. p. 



Stariki, Hifl. Kamtfcb. p. 155. PERROQUET A, 



Perroquet Auk, ArSi. Zool, N° 433. Pl. XCV. Fig. 2. 



*"p H I S is a trifle bigger than the Little Auk, but not unlike it in Description. 



fhape. The bill is much comprefied on the fides, and in 

 fhape convex both above and beneath : the noftrils are pervious, 

 placed in the middle of it; parallel to the edge, and at a little 

 diftance from it, above thefe, is a furrow, reaching from the bafe 

 to the middle : the colour of the bill a deep red : the vifage ad- 

 joining the bill is much prolonged, whence the eyes, which are 

 final], appear far back in the head : in the middle of the upper 

 eyelid is a white fpot; and from the hinder part of the eye fprings 

 a (lender tuft of white feathers, which hang loofely on each fide 

 of the neck : the head, neck, and upper parts, are black, inclining 

 to hoary on the fore part of the neck : the under parts from the 

 breaft white : thighs dufky : wings and tail even, the laft very 

 fhort : legs dirty yellow : webs brown. 



Found at Kamtfchatka, with the laft fpecies : alfo in the ifles Place and 

 towards Japan, and the weftem fhores of America-, moft frequent Manners. 

 in the laft : fometimes feen in flocks, but feldom far from land, 

 except driven by ftorms. Of nights harbour in the crevices of 

 rocks. Lay an egg almoft the fize of a Hen's, of a dirty 

 white or yellowiih colour, fpotted with brown ; this they do about 

 the middle of June, upon the bare rock or fand, for they make no 

 Deft. Are,, like moft of the tribe, ftupid birds, as may be evinced 



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