PLATE LXIV. 



Perm. Br. Zoo!. 2. iV° 230. pi. 82. 



Ara. Zool N° 425. 



Lath, Gen. Syr?* 5. 319. 5. 



Suppl. 265. 



The Falk. Martins Voyage, St. Kilda 33. 



The Marrot. Sib. Hi/?. Fife. 48. 



Le Pingoin. Brif. Orn. 6. p. 89. 2. pL 8. /^. I* 



Z?w$~. Oif. 9, p. 390.//. 27. — PI. enL 1 003, 1604, 

 Tord. Tordmule. Faun. Suec. fp. 139. Nowegis Klub-Alkc, 



Klympe. Danis, Alke, Brunnich. 



Length of this fpecies eighteen inches \ weight twenty-two ounces* 



Thefe birds breed in the ledges and cliffs of the mofl ftupendous 

 and craggy rocks on our coafts. They appear in the Britifh feas 

 early in February, but do not inhabit their breeding places till May. 

 The female lays only one egg ; but that is of an extraordinary fize 

 compared with the bird, being three inches long : it is of a pale fea 

 green, irregularly fpotted with black ; fometimes the ground colour 

 is white. They build no neft, but lay the egg on the bare rock, fo 

 clofe to the verge of the precipice, that if it is the leaft difturbed, 

 human ability can rarely place it on its former equilibrium. If the 

 firft egg is deftroyed, or taken away, it lays a fecond, and fometimes 

 a third, if the fecond is milling. 



Thefe eggs are fo eagerly fought after by the inhabitants of the fea 



coafl ; that they often brave the greateft dangers to find them ; and 



not unfrequently facrifke their lives in the attempt. The ufual 



method of taking them is for two pexlbns, having a rope tied round 



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