farrowed with white.— The young males 
after their first moult, may be distinguished 
from the young females by the band be- 
tween the beak and the eyes, which is then 
very faint and narrow— Birds of the first 
year of both sexes have the top of the 
head, back of the neck and all the upper 
parts of an ash- coloured black, and all the 
under parts of a pure white ; this white 
prevails also upon the sides of the neck 
and towards the back of the head, where 
this colour forms an angle; underneath 
and behind the eyes is a large spot of dusky 
brown, which reaches towards the orifice 
of the ears, where it appears as it were 
effaced ; the beak is small, but little rai- 
sed, without furrows, and scarcely hooked 
at the end ; hides dusky. In this state it 
is the Black billed AuM 
The Razor bill abounds in the north of 
Europe ; also in Iceland, Greenland, and 
on the coast of Labrador. In Europe they 
extend along the White Sea into the Arctic 
Asiatic shores, and from thence to KamtsK 
chatka and the Gulf of Ochotka. 
Montagu is of opinion that the Razor- 
