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BRITISH BIRDS* 
RAZOR-BILL. 
AUK, MURRE, FALK, MARROT, OR SCOUT. 
{^Alca tor day Lin . — Le Pinpln, BufF.) 
The wings of this fpecies are more fumifhed 
with feathers, and longer in proportion to the fize 
of the bird than thofe of the lall: ; they meafure, 
extended, about twenty-feven inches : the length of 
the bird, from bill to tail, is eighteen. The bill is 
black, ftrong, curved towards the point, and fliarp- 
ly edged ; the upper mandible is croffed with four 
tranfverfe grooves, and the under one with three, 
the broadeft of which is white, and forms a band 
acrofs them both ; the infide of the mouth is yel- 
low : the bafe of the bill is covered with feathers a 
great way forward, upon which, on each fide, is 
placed a fmgular, narrow, white ftreak, which paff- 
es to the corner of the eye ; another white ftripe^ 
