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wings, and of fuch fhort flight, that they can- 

 not fly to the places where they breed, on high 

 rocks, without making feveral ftages, by flying 

 from one ridge to another, and fo mounting at 

 lafl: to their nefts and roofling places. Amongfl 

 thefe are the Razor-Bill, the Gillemot, and the 

 Coulterneb, which fee defcribed by our country- 

 man Willoughby, in his Ornithology, page 123, 

 4, 5, Ail thefe birds, with fome others of the 

 fame genus, difappear in the winter ; and it is 

 not conceivable that they fliould take long flights' 

 in order to change their fituation, efpecially the 

 Penguin, who certainly cannot fly at all. 



It remains now to confider what fliould be- 

 come of thefe birds, during their abfence from 

 the fight of the inhabitants of thofe iflands : 

 there mufl: be fome providential means to pre- 

 ferve them unfeen, in that part of the world 

 where they appear only in the fummer months ; 

 for in the fpring they are faid to appear all at 

 once, in as great numbers as if they had never 

 been abfent. I think the mofl: rational con- 

 jecture, for the manner of their hiding them- 

 felves, and being preferved during the long and 



cold 



