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BRITISH BIRDS* 
GREAT AUK. 
NORTHERN PENGUIN, OR GAIR-FOWL. 
[Aka Itnpennls, Lin . — Le Grand Plngoln, Buff.) 
The length of this bird, to the end of the toes, 
is three feet. The bill is black, and four inches and 
a quarter long ; both mandibles are crolfed oblique- 
ly with feveral ridges and furrows, which meet at 
the edges. Two oval-lhaped white fpots occupy 
nearly the whole fpace between the bill and the 
eyes : the head, back part of the neck, and all the 
upper parts of the body and wings are covered with 
