THE RAZOR-BILL. 
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ception, that a dog is trained to the sport. The 
Puffins sitting together in prodigious numbers in the 
deep holes and clefts of the highest rocks, one of 
these little dogs is sent in, which seizes the first by 
the wing. This, to prevent being carried away, 
lays hold with its strong beak of the bird next to 
it, which, in like manner, seizes its neighbour, and 
the dog continuing to draw them out, an extraordi- 
nary string of these birds falls into the hands of the 
fowler. They are in Norway taken for their fea- 
thers, which are valuable.” 
Sociable as they appear, and attentive to their 
young, there yet seems to be a curious exception 
occasionally occurring towards the close of the 
breeding season, when, on their departure, the 
broods of the latter hatches are left a prey for 
the Peregrine Falcon, who watches at the mouth of 
the holes, and seizes the poor starving nestlings, 
when compelled through hunger to quit their inner 
chambers, thus escaping the lingering pains of famine 
by a more violent and immediate death. 
With respect to the Razor-bills and Guillemots, 
we shall again refer our readers to the same rock- 
scenery of the South Stack, already noticed in our 
observations on Gulls, where, as on a stage of Na- 
ture's theatre, we have often watched their motions 
from the verge of a projecting little promontory, or 
arm of rock, immediately facing a precipice beyond 
the reach of human intrusion, intersected by innu- 
merable fissures, crevices, ledges, and shelves, ad- 
mirably adapted for tenants requiring such accom- 
modations, and where, accordingly, an army of Razor- 
bills and Guillemots have taken up their position, 
