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 The Razor-BilL 



Numb. XCV. 



TS notfo big as the tame Duck: Between the tips of the Wings, when 

 ■*■ fpread, it was twenty feven Inches broad ; its Head, Neck, Back and 

 Tail, in general its whole upper fide, is black : Its Belly and Breaft as 

 far as the middle of the Throat white. The upper part of the Throat 

 under the Chin hath fomething of a dusky or purplifli black. Each 

 Wing has twenty eight Quill-Feathers ,• the tips of all the covert Fea- 

 thers to the eleventh are white. The Tail is three Inches long, made 

 up of twelve Feathers ; the exterior fhorter by degrees than the interior: 

 The Excefs of the two middlemofi: above the next to them is greater 

 than that of the reft. 



The Bill from the tip to the angles of the Mouth is two Inches long, 

 of a deep black, narrow or comprefTed fidcvvays; a little beyond the 

 Noftrils in the upper Mandible there is engraven a Furrow or Incifion 

 deeper than that of the Coulter-Neb^ as far as this Groove the Bill is 

 covered with a thick, fhort, foft Down, like the Nap of Velvet-, the 

 upper Chap is crooked at the end, concave and over-hanging the 

 lower: Both are of equal length, channelled with two tranfverfe Fur- 

 rows or Grooves (the upper for the moft part with three;) that next the 

 Head which is the wideft, and almoft croftes the whole Bill, being white: 

 from each Eye to the corner of the upper Mandible is a narrow whitifh 

 Line: The Mouth within is of a lovely yellow; the Eyes hazel Colour; 

 the Legs are fituate as in the Tengum and Coulter-Neby of a black Co- 

 lour, as are alfo the Feet and Claws ; it wants the back-Toe. It lays, 

 fits and breeds up its young ones on the Ledges of the craggy Cliffs 

 and fteep Rocks by the Sea Shores; their Eggs are large and white va- 

 ried with black Spots: This Bird was fent me out of York/hire by my 

 very good Friend Mr. Knowlton Gardiner to my Lord Burlington. 



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