Pei yA TE A var 
Purrin, Courrernes. Raii. Syn. p. 120. 4 5.—Will. Orn. 
P. 325. pl. 65.—Hift. Groenl. ii. pl. 1.—Albin. ii. 
pl. 78, 79.—LEdw. pl. 358. fig. 1.—Brit. Zool. 11. 
N° 232.—Ard. Zool, N° 427.—Tour in Wales, 
pl20. Brit. Muf—Lev. Muf. 
Fratercula, le Macareux. Briff. av. VI. 81. Tab. 6. fig: 2. 
Buf. Oif. 1X. p. 358. pl. 26.— Pl. Enl. 275. 
Ipatka, Hit. Kamts. p. 153. 
See Papagey, or See Taucher. Fri/ch. II. 192. 
Length from the point of the bill to the end of the feet twelve inches; 
breadth twenty-one. Weight twelve ounces. “The bill is an inch 
and a quarter long, and of a very fingular fhape, much comprefled on 
the fides, and near an inch and an half deep at the bafe; from whence 
both mandibles tend to a point, which is a little curved; acrofs the 
upper are four oblique furrows; on the under three : half next the 
point is red; that next the bafe blue grey; and at the bafe is a cere 
full of minute holes: the noftrils are a long and narrow flit on each 
ftde, near the edge of the upper mandible, and parallel to it: the top 
of the head, the neck, and upper parts of the body black; beneath 
white : legs orange. 
The bill, which gives fuch an appearance of novelty to this bird, 
varies confiderably according to,its age; in the firft year it is fmall, 
weak, deftitute of any furrow, and dufky ; in the fecond year it is larger, 
ftronger, of a paler colour,-and difcovers a faint veftige of a furrow 
near the bafe; but thofe of the third or more advanced years, have a 
bill of great ftrength and vivid colours as before defcribed.. Thofe 
birds are fuppofed to be imperfect until the third year; or at leaft not 
20 to 
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