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alcad.e. 
NAT A TO RES. 
ALCADM. 
PLA'FE CCLXXXIV. 
RAZOR BILL. 
ALCA TORDA. 
The Razor Bill is a regular summer visitant along tlie 
coast of Great Britain, in localities suitable to its liabits. 
The countries chiefly inhabited by this species are situated 
between the sixty-second and seventy-second degrees of 
latitude, and it is equally plentiful in Europe, Asia, and 
America. On the coasts of the Icy Sea, as far as Kamt- 
schatka, and also on the frozen coast of America, the 
Razor Bill is numerous; equally so on the coast of 
Canada, Labrador, Greenland, and upper Norway. Great 
numbers frequent the entire coast of Iceland. This bird 
also frequents the shores of the Baltic, Heligoland, the 
coast of Prussia, Pommerania, Muklenburg, and Holstein. 
In Holland it is not numerous, but during its wanderings 
it visits the coasts of France, Spain, and the Mediter¬ 
ranean. 
The Razor-bill is a migratory species, and begins its 
southern course by the end of September; it continues 
to travel through November and December, according to 
