ALCINiE, PHALERIS. 
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ten or twelve grooves ; wings diminutive, much pointed, the primaries 
tapering to an acute point, the first longest, secondaries broad, scarcely 
longer than their coverts; tail short, of fourteen feathers ; bill black, 
with the grooves white ; feet black ; head, neck, and upper parts 
black, the throat and sides of the neck tinged with chocolate-brown, 
the wings with greyish-brown, the head, hind neck, and back glossed 
with olive-green ; fore part of neck below and all the lower parts 
white, as are a large oblong patch before each eye, and the tips of the 
secondary quills. 
Adult, 29, 27i, 
Rare and accidental on the Banks of Newfoundland ; said to breed 
on a rock near that island. 
Great Auk, Alca impennis, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 553. 
Great Auk, Alca impennis, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 316. 
474. 2. Alca Torda, Linn. Razor-billed Auk. 
Plate CCXIV. Male and Female. 
Bill rather shorter than the head, with its dorsal line very convex, 
upper mandible with five, lower with four grooves, black with a white 
band across each mandible ; feet blaek ; head, neck, and upper parts 
black, the head, hind neck, and back glossed with olive-green, the 
throat and sides of the neck tinged with chocolate, the wings with 
brown ; lower part of neck below and all the lower parts white, as 
are a line from the eye to the bill on each side, and the tips of the 
secondaries. Female similar. Young, in the winter, with the co- 
lours similar, but the back duller, the wings more brown, the throat 
and sides of the head mottled with white, and the bill much smaller, 
without furrows or white line. Old birds, in winter, with the throat 
and sides of the neck mottled with white, but in other respects the 
colouring as in summer. 
Male, 17, 294. 
Rare on the eastern coast of the United States, and only during 
winter. Breeds in great numbers on the Gannet Rock in the Gulf of 
St Lawrence, on the shores of Newfoundland, and the western coast 
of Labrador, chiefly in the fissures of rocks. 
Alca Torda, Bonap. Syn. p. 431. 
Razor-bill, Alca Torda, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 547. 
Razor-billed Auk, Alca Torda, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 112 ; v. v. p. 628. 
GENUS III. PHALERIS, Temm. PHALERIS. 
Bill shorter than the head, stout, straightish, broad at 
the base, compressed toward the end ; upper mandible with 
a prominent basal rim as in the puffin, its dorsal line con- 
