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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
YKmiN—AlcidcB. 
Genus— to. 
290. A lea tor da. Bazor-bill. 
A common resident on the coast. 
This bird nests in the cliffs of the Isle of Wight, and 
visits all parts of the coast, very rarely wandering inland. 
Warner, writing in 1795, says that it is "found among 
the lofty crags of Freshwater and St. Christopher's Cliffs, 
about the beginning of May. It is customary," he says, 
" with many of the islanders to descend the tremendous 
precipices where they are found, by the assistance of a 
strong rope, attached to a crow-bar fixed in the ground 
above. When the eggs are gotten, they may be purchased 
at about nine pence the dozen ; and being boiled hard, are 
by many people much esteemed." 
Numbers of this species, as well as guillemots, are 
washed up on our shores in winter. 
A specimen in the Alton Museum was found many 
years ago at Anthony's Folly, and another was obtained in 
the autumn of 1893, on Neatham Down, in the same 
neighbourhood.' 
The example in the Winchester College Museum was 
procured at Stockbridge in 1887. 
» "History of Alton." 
