.3 
The old birds of both sexes are alike. 
The birds of the first year have the beak 
much smaller, smooth on the sides, with- 
out furrows, and of a yellowish brown ; 
the space between the beak and the eye is 
of a dusky ash-colour; the cheeks and 
throat of a darker ash-colour than in the 
old birds ; the broad collar of the neck 
shaded in front with dusky ash-colour * 
feet of a dull red. 
This species frequent several parts of the 
coasts of Great Britain and Ireland; a few 
about the rocks at Dover ; great numbers at 
Fresh-water-cliffs and the Needle Rocks in 
the Isle of White, at BeachyHead, and other 
parts ; but no where in such abundance as 
at Priestholm Isle, where they are seen in 
flocks innumerable. They come to that 
island in the beginning of the month of 
April; but quit the place again and re- 
turn twice or thrice before they settle to 
breed, which is usually the first week in 
May, they deposit a single egg,$ about 
* The general colour of the egg is white ; but Mon- 
tagu observes in his Supplementary volume, that it is 
sometimes obscurely speckled with cinereous. 
VOL. Ill, B 
