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aij.en’s naturalist’s lirrary. 
nuDthltln.^' ‘he adult 
nuptial plumage_ IS almost completely assumed, but the bill 
although presenting the white transverse stripe, has only two' 
Range in Great Britain.— An inhabitant of the rocky coasts 
nesting in such localities from Cornwall to the Shetlands ft 
Mr° ’^'hth regard to Irel'and, 
o^rhSrni""'' ““"hy hi g'-eiit numbers 
Wex S Wnf “"f®, of Donegal, Antrim, Dublin, 
^ txford, W aterford, Cork, Kerry, Clare, Calway, Mayo, and 
^°ii "’“Iter. It IS found in the British seas, and is occa- 
sionally driven far inland during stormy weather. 
tanTTirTu lslandB.-The Ra.or-bill is an inhabi- 
tant of the Atlantic Ocean, occurring on the shores of North 
Amt'rica on the Atlantic, but not on the Pacific, shores. It 
breeds in Norway up to 69° N. Lat., as well as in the Faeroes 
knoi“ in'^Snirshf ^ far as is 
knoi^n, in bpitsbergen. Its most southern breeding range 
according to Saunders, is the coa.,t of Brittany; though b 
winter It is seen m the Mediterranean, and even as far as the 
Canaries. It is found in Eastern North America, breeding in 
Greenland up to about 70“ N. Lat., and on the coasts of 
Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, winterincr some- 
what to the south of these countries, when it occtirs^off the 
New England coast. 
HabiU-Very similar to those of the Puffin and Guillemot 
the speems being equally gregarious both in summer and 
ivinter. It is met \Mth on the Parne Islands, where, however, it 
IS not very plentiful. My friend, the late Henry Seebohm ha 
written some interesting accounts of the birds observed by 
Els” H2:r5“o'fZSS^^ ' •>" '»» 
“ Like the Guillemot and the Puffin, the Razor-bill is a resi- 
dent in the British seas, but appears to be less numerous in 
winter than m summer, because it is spread over a much wider 
area, and fives for the most part out at sea. In its habits i 
very closely resembles the Guillemot, but is easily distinguished 
from that bird, even at a considerable distance, by its deeper 
