THE KAZOK-BILL. 
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I have never heard of its succeeding very well. I knew of two 
young birds taken from the nest by Josie Mathieson, and kept 
alive for some time, fed upon fish. They did well ^enough 
until the autumn was somewhat far advanced, but they then 
became very restless and lost appetite, and were continually 
endeavouring to escape. In this way they lived on for a 
while, and both died about Christmas. 
In the adult male, in the first week in July, the bare parts 
are as follows : — Eye [grey] ; eyelid, orange red ; fleshy sub- 
stance above and below the eye, dark bluish grey ; bill, upper 
mandible, basal ridge, greyish yellow ; triangular space, dark 
bluish grey, remainder orange red, palest at the junction with 
the bluish grey ; lower mandible differs in having the basal 
ridge orange red ; legs and feet reddish orange, rather dingy 
behind; claws, blackish brown. In a dead bird, perfectly 
fresh, which was picked up on the shore so late as the end of 
September, I observed at the time that the sides of the head 
were of a smoky grey, with a number of black marks about the 
eye, chiefly above it. 
The queer facial expression of the Puffin has caused it to be 
selected by the Shetland folk as a 'standard for uncomplimen- 
tary comparison when personalities are indulged in; our '‘look- 
ing like a goose ” having its much more graphic counterpart in 
“ for SL the world like a Tammy Norie.” 
THE EAZOE-BILL. 
Alca tor da. 
WILLOCK. 
This species is said to have formerly been as plentiful as the 
Guillemot, but it has of late years been steadily decreasing in 
numbers, at any rate in Unst. The cause of the falling-off 
is not very apparent, the habits of the birds being so similar, 
and their requirements in the way of food being identical. A 
friend has suggested that possibly the Eazor-bill is not so long- 
