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tips of the eleven foremoft or outmoft Wing-feathers of the firft row are white, as in 

 the Anki The Tail is two inches long, confifting of twelve feathers, the middlemoft 

 the longeft, the reft by degrees fhorter and (horter to the outmoft. 



The Bill is ftreight, {harp- pointed, black, from the tip to the angles of the mouth, 

 almoft three inches long, round. The upper Chap near the point hath on each fide 

 a fmall angular procefs or tooth which is not received in the lower, but overhangs it 

 on both fides when the mouth is (hut. The Tongue undivided : The mouth within 

 yellow. The Feet fituate very backward near the Tail, as in the precedent, of a black 

 colour, as are alio the Claws. It wants the back-toe. 



The skin of the ftomach within is yellow : The Gall-bladder large : TheTefticIes 

 in the Males great, from which the feminal vefiel with various winding and reflections 

 tend to the vent. 



It lives and companies together with the Auks and Coullermbs : Breeding after the 

 lame manner, and in the lame places : But it is a fimpler bird, and more eafily 

 taken. 



It breeds yearly on the fteep Cliffs and inacceffible Rocks of the Ifle of Man, as 

 do the Auks, Sec. Likewife on an Ifland or Rock called Godreve, not far from St. Ives 

 in Cornwd; Alfo on Prefiholm Ifland, about a League diftant from Beaumaris in the 

 Ifle of Anglesey, where for want of frefh water no body at prefent dwels, nor are 

 there any buildings remaining, fave an old ruinous Chappel dedicated to St. SirU 

 cian. My Lord Bulkley is proprietor of this Ifland. Moreover, this Bird frequents 

 and birilds on the "Barn Iflands near the coaft of 'Northumberland 5 and the Cliffs about 

 Scarburgh in Yorkshire, in the Summer-months. 



This lays the biggeftEggs of all this kind, more than three inches long, very (harp 

 atone end, and blunt at the other, of a bluifh green colour, fome varied with black 

 Ipots or ftrokes, fome without any. 



Mr. Johnfon hath obferved thefe birds to vary fomewhat in colour, fome having- 

 black backs, fome brown or bay; Perchance thefe may be Hens, thole Cocks. 



C H A P. V. 



The Bird called Coulterneb at tie Fam Iflands, Puffin in North-Wales, in 



South-Wales Gulden-head, Bottle-nofe, and Helegug, at Scarburgh 



Mullet, in Cormval Pope, at Jerfey and Guernfey Barbaloc : Anas Ar&ica 



ChiL Pica marina vei Fratercula Gefneri * Aldrov. * Tom.§, 



pag.215, 



*His is lefler than the tame Duck^ extended in length from Bill to Feet twelve 

 Inches. Its Bill is fhort, broad, and compreffed fide-ways, contrarily to the. 

 Bills of Ducks ■> of a triangular figure, and ending in afharp point, the upper 

 Mandible arcuate, and crooked at the point. Where it is joy ned to the Head a cer- 

 tain callous fubftance encompafles itsbafe, as in Parrots. Between this callous body 

 and the firft furrow, anon to be defcribed, are long holes for the Nofthrils produced 

 by the aperture of the mouth. The Bill is of two colours,near the Head * cinereous f Afh-colo* 

 or livid, toward the point red, it*hath three furrows or grooves imprelled in it, one rcd * 

 in the livid part, two in the red. The Mouth is yellow within. The Eyes grey or 

 alh-coloured. The Eye-lids are ftrengthened with a black cartilage : in the lower is a 

 carneous protuberance of a * livid colour, in the upper a fmall triangular excrefcency * Black and 

 of the fame colour. blue, the co- 



The Feet of fome are yellowy I fuppofe thofe are young ones, of others red, fituate ^ aLVa 

 backwards almoft in the fame plain with the Belly, as they are in Doukersov Loons, ftrokeor cou* 

 fo that the Bird ftands and walks almoft perpendicularly erected upon the Tail. It tuflon ' 

 wants the back-toe. The inmoft of the fore-toes is the thorteft, the middlemoft tha 

 longeft. The Claws are of a dark blue, inclining to black. The top of the Head, 

 the Neck, and Back are black : The Breaft and Belly white. A ring or muffler of 

 black produced from the Neck encompaffes the Throat. The fides of the Head from 

 the crown, to the now mentioned muffler are white, or of a very pale afh-colour, fo 

 that the Eyes and Ears are included in thefe white fpaces. 



Their Wings are fmall, made up of fhort feathers, neverthelefs near the fuperficies 

 of the water they fly very fwiftly. They fay that out of the fight of the Sea they 



