Ply AY YEA Vin. 
have obferved in many parts of the ocean; they are always found there 
at certain feafons, but retire at the breeding time to the northern lati- 
tudes, and during that time are found as near the Pole as navigators 
have ever penetrated *. 
In America, they are faid to frequent Carolina; and have been met 
with in Sandwich Sound, by our late voyagers: the nafives ornament 
the fore parts and collars of their /ea/-/Rin jackets with the beaks of 
them; and in oonalafhka, they make gowns of their fkins, along 
with thofe of other birds. 
On the coaft of Kamtfchatka and the Kuriifchi iflands they are very 
common, even on the Pen/chinfki Bay, almoft as far as Ochotka: the 
nations of the two firft wear the bills about their necks faftened to 
ftraps; thefe are put on by their Shaman or Prieft, for the people are 
perfuaded that by putting them on with a proper ceremony, they will 
procure good fortune to all their undertakings +. 
“© About the fifth or tenth of April, they arrive in vaft quantities at 
Prieftholm ifle; but quit the place again, and return twice or thrice 
before they fettle to burrow, which they do the firft week in May, 
when many of them diflodge the rabdzts from their holes, by which 
they fave themfelves the trouble cf forming one of their own: in the 
laft cafe, they are fo intent on what they are about; as to fuffer them- 
felves to be taken by the hand. It has been obferved that this tafk falls 
chiefly to the fhare of the males, and that thefe laft affift alfo in incuba- 
tion: this has been proved on diffection. The female lays one white 
eget. The young are hatched the beginning of Fuly : and about the 
eleventh 
* Pen. Brit. Zool. + Hif. Kamtfch. 
t Albin obferves “ they build no neft, but lay their eggs on the bare ground”—~ 
“¢ They lay but one egg apiece (which is efpecially remarkable)” “ The eggs are very 
large 
