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The Guillemot^ or Sea Hen. 

 ^/^lltd^^A^ Numb. LXXXIV. 



32.^' TTT is almoft ag^blg as the common Duck\ its Length from the End of the 



\^ Bill to the End of the Tail is eighteen Inches and a half; the Breadth 

 when extended two Foot fix Inches ; the Head, upper fide of the Neck, 

 Back, Wings and Tail, and befide the Chin alfo, as far as the middle of 

 the Throat, are of a dark brown or btackifh Colour; its Belly, Breaft,and 

 the refl of its Throat are white ; the Tips of the eleven foremoft or out- 

 ermofl Wing Feathers of the firfl: Row are white ; the Tail is two Inches 

 long, confifting of twelve Feathers, the middlemoft of which is the long- 

 eft, and the reft fhorter by Degrees to the outermoft. 



The Skin of the Stomach within is yellow; the Gall-bladder large, and 

 the Tefticles in the Males large, from which the feminal Veflcls with vari- 

 ous Windings and Refedions tend to the Vent. 



It lives and companies together with the Auks and Coulternehs.^ breeding 

 after the fame Manner, and in the fame Places, but a much fimpler Bird, 

 and more eafily taken. 



It breeds yearly on the fleep Cliiffs and inaccefUble Rocks of the Ifle of 

 Man-i likewife on the Ifland or Rock call'd Godreave^ not far from St. Ives 

 in Cornwall', alfo on PreJIholm Id^indy about a League diftant from Beau- 

 maris in the J/Ie of Anglefey, where for want of frelh Water there are no 

 Inhabitants nor any Buildings remaining, fave an old ruinous Chapel de- 

 dicated to St. Sir'idan. This Bird alfo frequents and builds on the Farn- 

 IJland-i nQ2iVXhtQo2Ldioi Northumberland, and the Cliffs about Scarborough 

 in Torkjh'tre, in the Summer Months. 



This lays the biggeft Eggs of all this kind, more than three Inches long, 

 very (harp at one end, and blunt at the other, of a bluifh green Colour, 

 fomc varied with black Spots or Strokes, and fome without any. 



Some of thefe Birds vary in Colour, the Back of forae of them being 

 very black, others of a brown or bay Colour. 



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