BY ATR’ VEIE 
-to breed before that period: not a fingle one has ever been difcovered 
‘at Prieftholm which had not the bill of an uniform fize *. 
The male very nearly releibtes the female : in the former the white 
cheeks are fometimes obfcured with a mixture of dark feathers, and 
in others a patch of the fame colour has been obferved.cn each fide of 
the under jaw. 
This fpecies is very common in feveral parts on the coafts of Eng- 
‘land; they are feen in flocks innumerable at Przeftholm Ifle off the 
coaft of Anglefea; in great numbers about the Needles, in the L/les of 
Wight, Man, Bardfey, Caldey, Farn, Godreve, and other {mail, and 
| | defert iflands near the fhore. A few about the rocks of Dover, 
They are frequent in Ireland; on the ifland of Sherries, three 
leagues N.N.W. of Holyhead; and in the S. Stack, near Holyhead 
they breed in abundance. Inhabit /celand and Greenland, and breed 
in the extreme part of the iflands, efpecially on the weft part of Difea, 
-and the ifland Orpzk/auk +. | 
In the different parts it frequents, it has received a variety of appel- 
ations, but generally expreflive of the fingular fhape of the beak ; 
as Coulter-neb in the Farn ifles; Guldenhead, Bottle-nofe, and Helegug 
in Wales; at Scarborough, Mullet; at Cornwall, es ft, and in the 
| Ferroe ifles, Lunda. 
_ To what part thofe birds emigrate on the approach of winter is very 
-imperfectly known ; it is probable when they retire from thofe northern 
regions, their. flight is directed to fome more temperate climate; per- 
haps they live at fea, and form thofe multitudes of birds that navigators 
* See Tourin Wales, p. 2525 and figures of the different growth of the bill in pl. 20. 
- ($ Latham V. p. 316. ft Will, orm 
have 
