72 Of ^Palmipedes. Part I. 
Edges of both, do all give the Bill a fure hold, and won- 
derful ftrength. The three Grooves, as fo many Joynts, 
keep the Beaks from diftortion, when in cafe of miffing 
the Prey, they are fwifty and forceably elapt together. 
The fharp Edges of the nether Beak, ferve inftead of Teeth. 
The Bunch underneath, anfwers in fome meafure, to the 
ftrength of an Arch. The hight of the upper Beak, to that 
of a Board, when fet upon its Edge. 
The Penguin breeds in Canada, in the Ifland called New- 
land, in thofe of Fero, and of the Magellanic v^-Sea, and is 
therefore by Clufms called the Magellanic kzGoofe. They 
work themfelves, as the Coney, deep Buries by the Sea- 
(a) Wormi- fide, (a) 
The AUK, RASOR-BILL, or MURRE. Alia HoiarL 
See the Defcription in the forementioned Authors. She 
breeds on the Rocks of the Ifland Mona in Scotland. As 
alfo in thofe of Few. Scarce fo big as a tame Duck, His- 
Bill is like that of the Penguin. But the upper Beak is lharper 
Ridg d : and the Horny part of it fhorter. , The nether 
hath a leffer Bunch. The Notches alfo on both are fewer ^ 
whereof one or more of them are white, as Mr. Willughby 
rightly obferves. 
The HEAD of an AUK. 
The GUILLEMOT, fo called efpecially in Northumber- 
land 3 in Wales, the Guillem 5 in Torkzfhire, the Shout 3 in 
k h. orni- Cornwall , the Kiddaw. (b) LOMWIA HOIARL He s 
thoi.' " like the Auk, , but bigger. See the Defcription hereof in 
Willughby 3 as alfo in Wormi us. They build in Norway and 
I/land. As alfo in Farra an Ifland in Scotla?id. 
The HEAD of the GUILLEMOT. 
The PUFFIN 3 called alfo Bottlenofe, Coulterneb, MutteU 
and Pope. Anas Arnica Clufii. Hereof fee Clufms, Wor- 
mius, and Willughby. They are lefs than a tame Duck? 
Their Bill is much like to that of a Penguin, faving that 
the Horn of the nether Beak is not fhortend, as there, but 
contrariwife obliquely prolonged from the Margins. Tis 
alfo fhorter, and anfwerably higher, and therefore rather 
ftronger. When they fight, they will hold by their Bills 
fo hard, as fometimes to break one anothers necks, be- 
ujWiiiugh. f orc t h e y ? ] p arL Whatever (c) they eat in the day, they 
difgorge a good part of it in the night into the mouths 
of 
