BRITISH BIRDS. 
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belly, and vent, are white : legs dufky and brown : 
nails black. 
The female lays only one egg, which is large in 
proportion to her fize, being about three inches in 
length : they are not all alike ; thofe of one bird 
being of a whitifh ground, and of another, perhaps, 
pale blue, or pale fea-green, and all of them are 
curioufly and irregularly fpotted and ftreaked with 
black. 
It has been before obferved, that thefe birds affo- 
ciate with, and breed in the fame places as the Ra- 
zor-bill, and that they are, in many places, indif- 
criminately called V/illocks. 
