Oafs II. GREAT AUK. 401 



Genus XII. AUKS. 



* Thofe with thick Bills. 

 ** Thofe with (lender Bills. 



* 

 I. The GREAT AUK. 



Goirfugel. Clufil exot. 367° BriJ/bnav. vi. 85. tab. 7. 



Penguin Wormii, 300. Efcrokitfok *. Cranf&\ Greenl. 



Wil. orn.^t^. i. 82. 



Raiifyn, av. 119. Aka impennis. Lin. fijl. 210. 



Edw.av. I47. Faun.Si'ec. fp. 14.0. 



Martin s-<voy. St. Kilda. 27. ljlandis Gyr-v Geyrfugl. Norvegis 



Avis, Gare didta. Sib. Scot. Hi, Fijert, Anglemaage, Penguin, 



22. Brillefugl. Brunnich. 105. 



Alca major, le grand Pingoin. Br.Zool. 136. 



According to Mr. Martin, this bird breeds on the 

 ifle of St. Hilda \ appearing there the begin- 

 ning of May, and retiring the middle of June, k 

 lays one egg, which is fix inches long, of a white 

 color, fome are irregularly marked with purplifh 

 lines crofting each other, others blotched with black 

 and ferruginous about the thicker end j if the egg is 

 taken away, it will not lay another that feafon. A 

 late writer * informs us, that it does not vifit that 

 jfland annually, but fometimes keeps away for feveral 

 years together •, and adds, that it lays its egg clofe to 

 the fea-mark; being incapable, by reafon of the 



* Or little wing. -f Macaulafs hijl, $t, Kilda. p. 1 56. 



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