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the middle of each, to ftand clofe to the edge of the precipice, and 

 one to lower the other down gradually, the perfon above holding the 

 rope as fait as poflible whilft the other collecls the eggs. It however 

 often happens, in this perilous fituation, that the weight of the loweft 

 overbalances the ftrength of his companion above, and both are forced 

 down the precipice, where they muft inevitably be dafhed to pieces. 



The Razor-bill is found very common in the north of Europe, 

 in Iceland, Greenland, &c. They extend along the White Sea into 

 the Arclic Afiatlc fhores, and from thence to Kamtfchutku and the 

 gulph of Achotka # . 



Latham mentions, in his Supplement, the following curious par- 

 ticular of this fpecies. " The method this bird takes in fifhing is 

 rather fingular, often diving and catching feveral fmall fifh, which it 

 is obferved to range on each fide of the bill, with the head in the 

 mouth, and the tails hanging out on each fide of the bill ; and when 

 the mouth can hold no more, the bird retires to the rocks to f wallow 

 them at leifure." 



* Latham. Arft. ^ool. &c. 



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